Overdominant Quotes & Sayings

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing. — Lily King

Patience was not just a manner, it was the very form of seminar teaching. Columbia's core curriculum had been designed not to enshrine the authority of the lecturing professor (that was something done at Harvard) but to reach understanding through discussion, however clumsy and uncertain. Till this moment, I never knew myself. . . . Vanity, not love has been my folly! — David Denby

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice. — Thomas Harris

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course. — Donald Hall

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. — Carl Jung

Kara didn't feel like a dial and go coke pusher but she was a supremely good hustler — Saira Viola

If I've learned anything, it's that we know next to nothing. Disease is a mystery. Health is inscrutable. The body itself is scarcely understood; we can only examine the secrets of the dead. And in all that dark ignorance, we're sometimes granted a rare moment of illumination. The truth is a gift. — Courtney Milan

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy. — Dorothy Parker

You don't realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. — Lily King