Overstocked Quotes

#1. A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

Joseph Addison

#2. I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

Buddy Wakefield

#3. Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked.
We are going to experiment, dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists.

Barry Hughart

#4. Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

Eva Ibbotson

#5. No less instructive is the story, 'Pooh Goes Visiting,' in which Rabbit, having deceitfully offered Pooh admittance to sample his overstocked larder, artfully traps his victim in the doorway and exploits him as an unsalaried towel rack for an entire week.

Frederick C. Crews

#6. If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

O. Henry

#7. Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

Colin Farrell

#8. I don't know," is his troubled answer. Maybe

Suzana Thompson

#9. You're the first thing I've ever seen him want to take for himself." "What's your point?" Vhalla knew already she wasn't going to like it. "That it also means that you are the first thing the world knows it can take from him.

Elise Kova

#10. If we could have just done something so dreadful and Father said That's sad too people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today and I said, You can shirk all things and he said, Ah can you.

William Faulkner

#11. See, now there's an idea for an adult panel. Fifty Shades of Gallifrey. Scarf bondage and alternative uses for sonic screwdrivers." Oh,

Kathryn Lively

#12. What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#13. I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

Patti Smith

#14. I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#15. AirWalker. With a name like that, it had to be Mitch Walker's plane. Was it possible she'd found herself a bush pilot with a poetic soul?

Cheryl Cooke Harrington

#16. They were a fanatically independent people, much addicted to intrigue, treachery and murder, and that among their other national traits was an intolerance of rulers (or, if it came to that, of any form of authority whatsoever, other than their own desires).

M.M. Kaye

#17. But you could've at least told me. Instead of dropping me like a one night stand, you could've had the decency to break up with me instead of leaving me wondering for years ...

Gayle Forman

#18. Entrepreneurs don't do most of the work. Entrepreneurs identify the problems, discover the opportunities and then build processes to allow other people and other things to do the work.

Mike Michalowicz

#19. All I've got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth.

Bob Dylan

#20. For all the jokes and complaints about the aches of air travel, it's pretty marvelous, if you think about it.

Tsh Oxenreider