Overstatement quotes

  • I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

  • Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

  • Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably.

  • Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

  • [Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my refrigerator, so there's always a chance of life springing up almost anywhere.

  • Life is too short to work so hard.

  • Still. Smokers out there, you know what I'm talking about. That moment, after you've had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when you step outside in the cold, light up a cigarette and take a deep inhale ... that's about the best moment in the world, you know? All the smokers out there, you know that feeling. Sometimes, smoking is fantastic.

  • Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

  • I hate diets and I love eating.

  • In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.