Overabundant Quotes

#1. This state of affairs is not inevitable. Humans were able to employ science and law to transform common holdings into a commodity and then into capital; we also have the ability to reverse this path, transforming some of our now overabundant capital into renewed commons.

Fritjof Capra

#2. His motive in the relationship seemed to resemble the need of an anemic person who receives a kind of living transfusion from the mere sight of a savagely overabundant vitality.

Ayn Rand

#3. This is Mr. Bucket. This is Mrs. Bucket. Mr. and Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie Bucket.

Roald Dahl

#4. The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#5. When dawn comes I'm sitting in bed with my arms around my knees and, since I have nothing to do, am trying to know myself. "Know yourself"
what splendid and useful advice; too bad the ancients never thought of showing how to use this advice.

Anton Chekhov

#6. You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

Dean Koontz

#7. Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

Joyce Carol Oates