Overdrive Quotes

#1. After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.

Hamish Bowles

#2. I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

Terence Stamp

#3. Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious, he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing ...

J.K. Rowling

#4. If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#5. Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

Julia Stiles

#6. Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.

Jennifer Niven

#7. It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

Kara Swisher

#8. Everything about him causes my lungs to fail and my heart to go into overdrive

Colleen Hoover

#9. What is it about men in dinner jackets?! Black tie makes even the most geeky bloke look gorgeous, and as for the already good-looking ones - well, it sends them into sex appeal overdrive, and they know it.

Rae Earl

#10. We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe
perhaps correctly
that nobody will hear us. In the process, we've sacrificed nuance and judgement and distinction, and thereby cheapened the conversation.

Frank Luntz

#11. Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.

George F. Will

#12. I'll get my swim suit," I manage to choke out.
The sound of his sexy chuckle sends my pulse spinning into overdrive. "Don't forget your arm floaties, too.

Nicole Christie

#13. Now, half an hour later, adrenaline thrust him into overdrive. Storms of shale and spall burst from the ground. Ropes of sweat braided his skin. He swung again and again. The heavy pick shattered earth. Digby was in a rhythm, a digging trance, that rare state of archaeological

Shaun Morey

#14. Women are still angry about feeling duped and undervalued, but instead of ignoring their kids and downing cocktails all day, as in Friedan's time, now we have the angry overdrive child-rearing style: motherhood as a competitive sport.

Laura Kipnis

#15. Someone who makes me laugh." The twitching went into overdrive. "Are you making stuff up?" Because, really? Kulti laughing? Ha.

Mariana Zapata

#16. Really, he has only two emotions: sleeping and adrenaline overdrive.

Neal Stephenson

#17. If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.

Frank Rich

#18. He stood there tall and dashing, peering down at her with a set of mesmerizing sapphire eyes. It wasn't the eyes that had her sex-drive squealing into overdrive; it was that ... hair. Now, Tarrah had never really been into redheads before, but damn, she sure as hell would be willing to convert.

Victoria H. Smith

#19. Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

Robin Trower

#21. Tease me like that again, and I'll put you over my knee," Cain threatens, and my poor impulse control kicks into overdrive.
"I'm not teasing.

Lilly Black

#22. I'd never been one for prayer, but when things got serious, I put it into overdrive, imagining God on the other end thinking, hmmm . . . Emma doesn't usually pray. This must be serious.

Karen McQuestion

#23. When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

Emraan Hashmi

#24. He pulled me like a magnet. Every female instinct I had went into overdrive.

Ilona Andrews

#25. happening in my highly distressed state of mind. A psychiatrist later explained that in order for someone to perform sexually, their sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems have to be operating at the same time, which isn't possible when your brain is on operational overdrive.

Ralph Pezzullo

#26. I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

Brian Setzer

#27. Well", he drawled."You do know what they say about guitarrists. I think nimbleness beats ball grabbing and body tackling any day of the week." And then he flexed his long, slender fingers, and the implications sent my brain into overdrive.

Ron C. Nieto

#28. Just love others for what they are and not what you want them to be.

Sanchita Pandey

#29. You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

Hasan M. Elahi

#30. The music is all we care about
so if that's bad, then we're bad.

Billy Corgan

#31. Hang in there. Let me save something, make it, instead of break it

Elise Kova

#32. A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences. My

Gene Wolfe

#33. We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.

Matt Chandler

#34. No, not at all. Looks like we're both here to learn how to be the best at getting people off.

Brooke Cumberland

#35. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish Proverb (p. 117)

Jenny Sanford

#36. I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.

Kim Gandy

#37. Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Nicolas Roeg

#38. In terms of flu prevention, for my son I'll do a quick smoothie, usually with spinach, avocado or broccoli. And then throw in strawberries and blueberries to hide the greens.

Tia Mowry

#39. Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong.

Merikare

#40. With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

James Russell Lowell

#41. Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Robin G. Collingwood