Overdevelopment Quotes

#1. In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#2. Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.

Pamela Erens

#3. It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#4. I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them ...

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Horace

#6. My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

Sergio Aragones

#7. One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth,

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

Morrissey

#9. I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff.

Michael Welch

#10. The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Henry James

#11. The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.

Sarah Helen Whitman

#12. Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?

Simone Elkeles

#13. Teaching, even when it was just subbing, was like having a pair of jumper cables attached to some critical part of your brain. It was good that the kids could draw power from that part, but there was precious little left over. Many

Stephen King

#14. There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

Ally Condie

#15. Hey, new girl. You know the straw that broke the camel's back? Is that the same thing as the last straw?

Stephanie Danler

#16. What if ... fuck, I don't know. What if it's worth risking everything to be together?

Linda Kage