Top 92 Quotes About Overtime
#1. The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.
John Sweeney
#2. I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.
Joan Jett
#3. I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.
Hugh Shelton
#4. They say there are
Twenty-four hours in a day
But I'm only up for three of them
And two I consider overtime
Francesco Marciuliano
#5. I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.
Charles M. Schwab
#6. Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
Ann Coulter
#7. On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.
David Hayter
#8. If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.
Renee Ellmers
#9. The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
Lou Holtz
#10. God will close a door, in order to protect you from someone that is not capable of helping you fulfill your life mission. Overtime these become the doors you are grateful to have locked.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
Zac Efron
#13. I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
Kylie Minogue
#14. Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.
Scott Adams
#15. Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.
Peter Bondra
#16. A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
Sufjan Stevens
#17. When you're part of an illegal government conspiracy, your actual job description gets hazy. [...] If you're working off the books, but the books don't officially exist in the first place, have you really gone rogue, or are you just putting in unpaid overtime?
Craig Schaefer
#18. A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
Patti LuPone
#19. I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.
Michelle Rodriguez
#20. Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#21. The Manifestation of your dream is probably right around the corner, that is why the devil is working overtime on you trying to make you give up.
Joe Joe Dawson
#22. So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
Josephus Daniels
#23. A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Cecil B. DeMille
#24. Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra" - in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime.
Robert A. Heinlein
#25. But the steep drop in violent crime presented police with a problem. If making arrests is the only way to advance in your career, but crime is dropping, what do you do? Furthermore, what to do if the only way to make a living wage is to rack up as much overtime as possible?
Matt Taibbi
#26. Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.
Nick Hanauer
#27. The budgets are runnin' low, the streets ain't really got money no more, things are just dryin' up; I just felt like people needed some motivation, so I took 'em "Overtime."
Ace Hood
#28. we have a system that has been working overtime to move money from the bottom and middle to the top, but the system is so inefficient that the gains to the top are far less than the losses to the middle and bottom.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#29. I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.
Charles Haley
#30. You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
Billy Joel
#31. We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.
Stephen Curry
#33. Crime Squad would have been great if it weren't for the murders. Murders were shit. Murders meant long hours, writing reports, endless meetings and loads of stressed-out people. But at least they got free food from the cafeteria when they worked overtime.
Jo Nesbo
#34. Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
Jack Kerouac
#35. Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year.
David Davis
#36. The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days. Overtime is a wash.
Tom DeMarco
#37. Happiness is only for a short time then comes sadness which proceeds on overtime
A.N. Knight
#38. These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.
Robert Mitchum
#40. Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.
Norm Dicks
#41. I just wanted to let people know that, in any aspect in which you're getting' money, you've gotta go overtime in order to provide for your loved ones or those who are around you. So that was my state of mind.
Ace Hood
#42. Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once
children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work
and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.
Susan L. Taylor
#43. Pheromones must be working overtime. What was
E.L. James
#44. A situation in itself is not powerful; We bestow it with power by thinking overtime about it and discussing about it.
Sanchita Pandey
#45. You will practice more self-awareness. People who meditate regularly, overtime they develop a greater awareness of themselves, their actions and emotions.
Amy Young
#46. We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.
Lilly Ledbetter
#47. No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
Gus Van Sant
#48. We've got goals we're trying to reach, and "Overtime" is the only way to do it, and "Champion" is the only thing we're tryin' to be.
Ace Hood
#49. You see, we capitalists will never actually ask you to work overtime. I don't even track your hours. I just make it clear that I trust you to get your job done in the time allotted. And then I hand you twice as much work as you can reasonably do in a 40-hour week.
Nick Hanauer
#50. It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?
B. J. Palmer
#51. I ran my hand over my face in disbelief. One minute I was thinking about the best way to end it all, and the next minute I was headed for Gulfport on a mule. My guardian angel was definitely working overtime.
Manel Loureiro
#52. The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
Mike Bickle
#53. To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio.
Douglas Brinkley
#54. I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
Charles Barkley
#55. Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.
Buddy Guy
#56. A new report reveals that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent over $82,000 on food at NFL games. Christie said, 'Hey, both of those games went into overtime.'
Conan O'Brien
#57. In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.
Godfrey Gao
#58. That's what I have you for," I grinned. "I'm just here to carry the heavy stuff. The union says thinking rolls me into overtime
Rob Thurman
#59. Our people are working overtime - I say our people; our federal agencies in this regard - and that I'm confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups.
Hugh Shelton
#60. To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.
LeBron James
#61. In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime.
Ace Hood
#62. When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties,
Jonas Jonasson
#63. There will be positive and negative references with everything we do in life. At best we can simply hope that overtime, the positive outweighs the negative.
Jay Danzie
#65. The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.
Nick Hanauer
#66. I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.
LeBron James
#68. When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Meg Rosoff
#69. Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.
Jennifer Ellison
#70. A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality.
Tom DeMarco
#71. If you can't do it with brainpower, you can't do it with manpower - overtime," is axiomatic with me.
Clarence L. Johnson
#72. My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.
Donald Coggan
#74. How long does it take?" I asked. "I'm sorry?" "How long does it take you to get dressed for work in the morning?" "Two and a half hours," she said. "Do they pay you overtime for that?
Ilona Andrews
#75. I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
Alan Autry
#76. This is not a call for working faster or doing more overtime or making do with fewer people," he said in one town hall forum.
Ed Catmull
#77. With a woman he's crazy about, he'll put in all the overtime in the world. He'll be doing things for you, he'll be considerate, he'll want to please you, he'll try to cheer you up if you are down, and he will enjoy every moment because you are the person he values most.
Sherry Argov
#78. I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.
Tullian Tchividjian
#79. We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.
William J. Clinton
#80. I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.
David Ogilvy
#81. With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#82. An entourage trailed Hall inside and outside the school district's downtown headquarters; it included a full-time bodyguard whose overtime pay often doubled her $50,000-a-year salary.
Anonymous
#83. we don't work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn't get done on time.
Tom DeMarco
#85. Good books, like good food, are meant to be savored and digested slowly overtime - Konnrad
Konnrad
#86. I am pretty involved with everything that goes on, and overtime have learned a lot about the business side of things. I have an amazing manager, who understands the business really well, so he is a great teacher.
Tristan Prettyman
#87. Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules,
Elaine Chao
#88. I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#89. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing
Heather Simmons
#90. It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.
Judith Kelman
#91. When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.
Shannon A. Thompson
#92. What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk?
Steve Vernon
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