Quotes About Overly

#1. As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.

Judy Reyes

#2. Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

Joichi Ito

#3. I'm a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.

Mary Lambert

#4. Seattle is not an overly friendly city. It is a civil city, but not altogether friendly. People from outside mistake the civility for friendliness. Seattle is full of people who have their own lives to live. They won't waste their time being friendly. But they are civil.

Jonathan Raban

#5. Adonis Benoit. What were his parents smoking when they named him? Talk about overly conceited. It was no wonder he had a penchant for megalomania.

Em Wolf

#6. If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.

Matt Mullenweg

#7. 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.

Barton Seaver

#8. I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

Rafael Palmeiro

#9. She was wishing Adam was here.
Now wasn't that a scary realization to her inner, overly independent, I-am-woman-who-will-never-need-a-man-so-hear-me-roar, feminine badass self?" ~ Jenna

Jessie Lane

#10. Instead of overly seeking to get more 'likes' and 'followers' on social media seek to build trust and more meaningful, lasting relationships.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#11. To be tall and forbidding might command respect for a time, but not affection. To be overly familiar might command affection for a time, but not respect.

Jon Meacham

#12. Your Grace seems out of breath. I do hope you're not being chased by an overly enthusiastic heiress?" "Pack a light bag, Craven," Maximus snapped. "We're going to London to help a murderous lunatic escape from Bedlam.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#13. He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

#14. One overly simplistic idea is that we can improve student performance by just by giving financial incentives to parents, teachers, or kids. Unfortunately, there is little evidence that such incentives are effective, but nuances matter.

Richard H. Thaler

#15. Claire freed him, and then lifted Ryan to his feet. She pushed back his head to inspect his wound, overly rough. "You'll live." Ryan winced. "Thanks, Honey, I love you, too.

Jamie McGuire

#16. Criticizing yourself all the time or being overly judgmental of a situation is like wearing dark sunglasses indoors.

Matthew McKay

#17. In this way, the Hearsts became the symbol of the overly lenient parents of the era and a counterpoint to the Republican administration's voice of discipline and order.

Jeffrey Toobin

#18. I'm also thinking a lot lately that Descartes has so much to answer for - his idea, "I think therefore I am." Western culture is so built around this overly cerebral disembodied way we've created all of our institutions, and we're impoverished by it. We're so much smaller for it. So

Krista Tippett

#19. Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.

Stephen Richards

#20. Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

Tae Yun Kim

#21. Are you asking me if I fuck my food?" The words sound overly harsh in the darkness.

"I suppose I am.

Cat Hellisen

#22. The eventual aim was to build a 4,000-acre high-tech park, called Alpha Technopolis, to rival Taiwan's famous Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park. The vision was grand, perhaps overly so.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#23. This is the blessed life - not anxious to see far down the road nor overly concerned about the next step, not eager to choose the path nor weighted down with the heavy responsibilities of the future, but quietly following the Shepherd, one step at a time.

Lettie B. Cowman

#24. Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

Tift Merritt

#26. Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure.

Steven Pressfield

#27. When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

Francis Chan

#28. I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

Barack Obama

#29. Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Edmund White

#30. He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. The room looked like a small, overly curious tornado had torn it apart.
"You have got to be kidding me," I said. "Maybe I should give you to Shamus.

Devon Monk

#31. Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.

Payne Stewart

#32. My host needs a certain level of simplicity," the goddess continued. "Percy Jackson is perfect. He is powerful, yet his mind is not overly crowded with plans and ideas."
"Wow," I said. "Really feeling the love here.

Rick Riordan

#33. With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

Serj Tankian

#34. He poured himself a glass of whiskey. And another. And another. Not enough to get stinking drunk, just enough to make him overly contemplative.

Julia Quinn

#35. Be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager

Robert Jordan

#36. My brother and I both like sarcastic, insulting comedy, so that's a way we communicate. Somehow that's what we learned. My mom is not a really sarcastic person. She's a really sort of overly loving person, and my brother and I came out little cynical bastards.

Moshe Kasher

#37. I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

Rachel Sklar

#38. [ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does.

Jeb Bush

#39. When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

David Hasselhoff

#40. It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen.

Bob Buford

#41. If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.

Donald Ray Pollock

#42. I'd still trust an overly fat person over a skinny one any day. The best adviser would have a very specific body type: pudgy or just a little overweight. This makes it clear they have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with food, but not a clinical problem. They

Jim Gaffigan

#43. I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.

Ed Droste

#44. People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Laurence Sterne

#45. As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.

Billy Corgan

#46. One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.

Scott Baio

#47. When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

Robert Barnes

#48. I think that rather being overly-friendly at first, having a cold first impression and slowly making them realize that I'm not that cold is better.

Jessica Jung

#49. Fine,' Jared snapped. 'But if you try cuddling up to me tonight ... so help me, O'Shea.
Ian chuckled. ' Not to sound overly arrogant, but to be perfectly honest, Jared, were I so inclined, I think I could do better.

Stephenie Meyer

#50. I'm someone who can fall in love at the drop of the hat. My parents raised me to be very accepting of other people, so because of that, I feel like I might be overly accepting of girls. If a girl shows any interest, I'm like, 'Yes! I love you, you're amazing!'

Josh Hutcherson

#51. When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.

Craig Groeschel

#52. I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

Peter Singer

#53. If bankers become overly conservative in response to past lending mistakes - or if examiners force such behavior - it will hurt bankers' own long-term interests and the economy in general.

Ben Bernanke

#54. There's a misconception that maybe I'm overly confident or a little vapid or that I am a stereotypical, bratty, spoiled girl who doesn't have much to bring to the table other than how people perceive her physically.

Megan Fox

#55. A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

Janet Fitch

#56. The Lamb's Club is going to be a luxury bar and grill; we're not doing an overly fancy restaurant. We wanted to make a space that people will come to every day, almost like a very high-end bistro.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#57. I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

John Sexton

#58. I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

Ken MacLeod

#59. In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.

Jane Roberts

#60. I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Jewel

#61. The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do.

Madonna Ciccone

#62. The living being is in the state of forgetfulness of his relation with God due to his being overly attracted to material sense gratification from time immemorial.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#63. I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#64. If you are feeling overly optimistic the Republican Candidates Debate is on.

Kristen Schaal

#65. I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

Moby

#66. I don't like to be overly directing people either. I tell them what I want and I tell them when it's wrong. I tell them no, that's not what I want. I want it more like this or more like that. I'm pretty direct with everyone, and I treat everyone the same which might be good.

Julie Delpy

#67. My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

A. J. Jacobs

#68. A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

Moby

#69. Great. They fucked with my punctuation?" "Pam says you're overly fond of semicolons.

M. Pierce

#70. Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

Richard Serra

#71. Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Anna Quindlen

#72. People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

Anthony Edwards

#73. One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#74. Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.

Shirley Temple

#75. We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

Laura Linney

#76. You can only feel love to the extent in which you love yourself. If you deficiently love yourself, you will never believe that another person could truly love you. If you overly love yourself, no one's love will be good enough, and the world will seem pale and cold.

Michael Brent Jones

#77. I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

Melanie Brown

#78. Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was to be expected - he sold books for a living, after all.

Charlie Hill

#79. I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

Kirby Larson

#80. And it is not in any of our interests to have the balance of power turned on its head like this. An overly mighty French king is no improvement over an overly mighty English one.

Sharon Kay Penman

#81. When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Alanis Morissette

#82. If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.

Bruce Oldfield

#83. The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

Alanis Morissette

#84. I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

Stella McCartney

#85. I'm beginning to realise that I'm either overly sentimental, or am a hoarder who struggles to part with things. In all honesty, I'm probably both.

Fennel Hudson

#86. You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#87. The love of power is either due to low or overly high self-esteem.

Sunday Adelaja

#88. I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms ... Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

Paul Watson

#89. Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

Honore De Balzac

#90. Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people ... What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give. ... what Africans need is personal liberty ... [and] guarantees of private property rights and rule of law.

Walter E. Williams

#91. Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

Ram Dass

#92. I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Miley Cyrus

#93. First impressions are like South American dictators: overly powerful and unreliable.

A. J. Jacobs

#94. I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

Tom Bennett

#95. If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

Janeane Garofalo

#96. I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

Louise Brown

#97. You can be a lot more subtle on TV, which is funny because I feel like TV is known for being the opposite of that. The thing we experience in life is that things are not overly dramatic, and things often happen in really small ways.

Jay Duplass

#98. Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

Dani Shapiro

#99. Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Marisa Tomei

#100. If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

Gerard Butler