Megan McCafferty Quotes

Language is always burdened by thought.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

Watching those guys pummel each other so no one would suspect them of being weak was too much for me. Their reputations were more important than their faces.

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

Writers talk too much.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

I say too much sometimes, but I'm honest, that's the important thing.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

People do too much. They say too much.

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.

I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

If you zoom out into the future and look back and ask what Apple’s biggest contribution was, it will be in the health area.

The act of discretion around intimate relationships is how one honors these relationships. You explicitly don’t put on a PDA parade because they’re too important—too deep, too private.

You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

Future historians will find it ironic that we had so many debates about climate change when something else was about to smash us.

Horror is very often the lie that tells the truth about our lives.

[M]any believed but few knew very much.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.