Lisa Kleypas Quotes

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.

The difference between people are really great in terms of the level of their aspirations.

I have no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.

Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy." Cat

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.