Abstract Quote by Clive James

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

— Clive James

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

— George Ade

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

— Mitch Albom

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

— George Eliot

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of…

— Kate Morton

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

— Thomas Dolby

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

— Jonathan Franzen

“The problem began with her height, which was too short to command respect, and was compounded by china-doll features, an oversize bust, and the…

— Wendy Wax

“Her mind was less difficult to develop.”

— Jane Austen

“…as she cycled home Shelley reflected that in all her years at Birnam Wood she had never quite mastered the skill of knowing in…

— Eleanor Catton

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald