Overpoweringly Quotes

#1. If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.

A.A. Milne

#2. Carding's robe, for example, had become a silk and lace convection of overpoweringly expensive tastelessness, and gave him the appearance of a big red jelly draped with antimacassars.
'It suits me, don't you think?

Terry Pratchett

#3. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

John Knowles

#4. My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#5. I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

Vance Havner

#6. I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

Graham Coxon

#7. Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Booth Tarkington

#8. I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.

Gina Barreca

#9. If you are just one girl, I am just one boy." Shahrzad

Renee Ahdieh

#10. I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

Brett Dennen

#11. Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

George R R Martin

#12. To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.

Mark McGwire

#13. Family relationships have made me so ill!

Sophia Tolstaya

#14. Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Fletcher Knebel

#15. One of the most priceless parts of our human life is the area called desire. It is a God-given gift that separates us from all the rest of creation.

Bill Johnson

#16. In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

John Allen Paulos

#17. No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

C.S. Lewis

#18. So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.

Fay Weldon