Overblow Quotes & Sayings

Love is rare enough in this life,
that when you come acrost it
you'd best grab ahold,
and hang on for dear life. — Pamela Morsi

A writer must not take offence when inverts give his heroines masculine faces. — Marcel Proust

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power. — Henry Cabot Lodge

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life ... Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism. — Chester Himes

As a standup performer, I'm onstage, and it's important how the audience is looking at me. I'm looking at whether they're leaning forward or not, those types of things. You read an energy. And it's the same thing in a scene with other actors. — Jerrod Carmichael

Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me. — Freddie Hubbard

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself. — Ashley Tisdale

The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage. — Cecelia Ahern

If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there. — Nancy Werlin

My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up. — Craig Silvey

Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot. — Nicholas Sparks

The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion. — George Inness

The feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet. — Alice Meynell

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency. — Richard Phillips