Top 22 Overfull Quotes

#1. I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos and expressing myself through them.

Andre Kertesz

#2. The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions" - anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like - things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.

Roland Merullo

#3. It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

Sheila Walsh

#4. He thought: Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ... . He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI

Agatha Christie

#5. For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

Edwin Catmull

#6. I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

Gunther Schuller

#7. Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. The function of suspense is to put the reader in danger of an overfull bladder.

Sol Stein

#9. Sometimes, when no one is watching me, I pretend they are mine and that I'm a citizen worthy of owning them.

Christina Benjamin

#10. I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.

John Raese

#11. I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.

Jez Butterworth

#13. He smiled at the sudden image of Prometheus tossing cars from one side of the bridge to the other to build his barrier. He heard the tiny tinkle of glass and wondered if being tossed across the Golden Gate Bridge by an Elder was covered by insurance.

Michael Scott

#14. My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

Charlize Theron

#15. The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#16. I'm overfull on secrets and underfed on friends.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#18. The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.

George Saunders

#19. Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

Jewel

#20. Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

Desmond Tutu

#21. I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#22. The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

Desmond Tutu

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