Overexplaining Quotes & Sayings

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with. — Jason Bay

His ship was powered, and the Martian war effort was powered, by a phenomenon known as UWTB, or the Universal Will to Become. UWTB is what makes universes out of nothingness - that makes nothingness insist on becoming somethingness. — Kurt Vonnegut

I wasn't sad after my father kissed the streetcar. If anything, it was a relief. Much as I missed him, his dying gave me an excuse to feel the way I already felt. Which was the way I felt right now, under the laundry room fluorescents: hollow, pissed off, wanting to be wherever I wasn't. Until I got there. Then I wanted to be somewhere else. — Jerry Stahl

In this chaotic universe, surprise not when a disaster does happen, but surprise when it doesn't happen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality. — Miriam Toews

Nine lives won't last you very long, will they?' says Ove. The cat licks its paw and looks as if it's not the sort of cat that likes to keep count. — Fredrik Backman

There is Royalty in your DNA — Bernard Kelvin Clive

All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported. — Oliver Ellsworth

I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly ... — Stephen Fry

Be as successful as a Smith. — Gregory C. Dugger

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure. — Joe Namath

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. — John Le Carre

I play Xbox in my underwear. — Mark Salling

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants. — Ava Dellaira

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head. — Clive Owen