Glut Quotes

#1. Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd
Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours
'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good
After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres.
Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut,
And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.

Henry Vaughan

#2. We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

Henry Selick

#3. Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

Matt Ridley

#4. Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.

Jay Maisel

#5. The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it.

Jerry Mander

#6. What a glut of books! Who can read them?

Robert Burton

#7. Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

Dale Archer

#8. One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

Maureen N. McLane

#9. At a time of recession, when there is a mounting glut of labour and uninvested savings, a reduction in wages and interest rates does not help. In fact, it deepens the recession.

Yanis Varoufakis

#10. Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#11. When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.

John Keats

#12. I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.

Patti Smith

#13. I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

Sean Parker

#14. Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.

Evan Osnos

#15. Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.

Tim Winton

#16. What we have is a data glut.

Vernor Vinge

#17. I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

Virgilia Peterson

#18. Preserving everything is a form of negligence that causes a new kind of damage: the loss of what matters in a glut of the insignificant. To preserve everything is to lose everything.

Gabriel Zaid

#19. I have two foes in the world, twins inextricably interrelated -- the hunger of the hungry and the glut of the glutted!

Marina Tsvetaeva

#20. [T]he problem was too much information. The population was being inundated with conflicting versions of increasingly complex events. People were giving up on understanding anything. The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it. Overload. It encouraged passivity, not involvement.

Jerry Mander

#21. One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.

Anne Rice

#22. These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

Rudyard Kipling

#23. Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little control.

Ruth Ozeki

#24. In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Don DeLillo

#25. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

Mary Shelley

#26. Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,
Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.

John Milton

#27. The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.

Andrew Neel

#28. That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Edward Abbey

#29. Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

Walter Kirn

#30. The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus

#31. Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

Skitch Henderson

#32. I'd rather kiss a wookie!

Donald F. Glut