Ellie Taylor Quotes

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

You've got to make yourself sound cooler than you are to your brothers.

People share things that make them look good.

You always look to impress.

I was never going to be very cute. I always looked for the best people to play with and, 'cause, to make myself look better.

World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

It might sound strange to describe New Yorkers as insecure when they delight so much in the cult of success. The display of wealth here, especially new wealth, is indeed wonderfully frank, from the super-long limousines which clog up the roads to the voluptuous fur coats that adorn both men and women.

I don't like when people seem to put every single thing on and just walk up and down outside waiting to be photographed. I think that's a bit lame.