When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
I was a precocious reader.
Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters
One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.
Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.
I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.
I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
I was a precocious child.
I basically was a precocious little kid.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever - and I was.
