Overbreadth Def Quotes & Sayings

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be. — Georges St-Pierre

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed. — Lucille Clifton

No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this. — Garrison Keillor

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. — John Conyers

Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow. — Emma Thompson

The magical encounter with the Beethoven quartet, the Bach suite, the Brahms symphony, in which your whole being is gripped by melodic and harmonic ideas and taken on a journey through the imaginary space of music - that experience which lies at the heart of our civilisation and which is an incomparable source of joy and consolation to all those who know it - is no longer a universal resource. It has become a private eccentricity, something that a dwindling body of oldies cling to, but which is regarded by many of the young as irrelevant. Increasingly young ears cannot reach out to this enchanted world, and therefore turn away from it. The loss is theirs, but you cannot explain that to them, any more than you can explain the beauty of colours to someone who is congenitally blind. — Roger Scruton

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever. — Mitch Albom

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it. — Edward Bond

From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more. — James Surowiecki

Friends, we live in a caffeine world. We think in a caffeine way and we live caffeine lives. — Caitlin Moran

The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process ... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it. — Andre Bazin

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be. — Chad Johnson

Writers are storytellers. So are readers. — Oliver North

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections. — Frederick Lenz