Overwound Quotes

#1. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness
the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

Arthur Nersesian

#3. Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Honore De Balzac

#4. After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

Giles Matthey

#5. I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

Sid Waddell

#6. All he felt was that same feeling he'd always had, that he was looking for something, whose name he didn't even know, and yet now, in the dark of the night and with his father had gone to wherever his mother had gone before, with Anna sitting beside him, he suddenly knew its name. Home.

Marcus Sedgwick

#7. You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Jane Austen

#9. What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

Alice Walker

#10. The heart is a demanding tenant; it frequently makes a strong argument against common sense.

Julie Kibler

#11. 26. If you would ask me to give you one thing, I will surely give you with the ability to see through my eyes so you will realize that you are one of my greatest treasures.

Karen Powers

#12. Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

Aimee Bender

#13. I definitely want to play someone who's inspired me. I would love to play Aaliyah; it would be personal because I love her so much.

Keke Palmer