Overlying Quotes & Sayings

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts. — Trace Adkins

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself. — Lyman Abbott

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. — David Lynch

Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings the city within view, but not within reach, of most Brazilian subsistence farmers. The new expressway expands Chicago, but it sucks those who are well-wheeled away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto. — Ivan Illich

The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work ... — Helena Rubinstein

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile. — Alice Roberts

Life in the Army is miserable that way. You fuck up, they scream at you, you fuck up some more and they scream some more, but overlying all the small, petty, stupid, basically foreordained fuckups looms the ever-present prospect of the life-fucking fuckup, a fuckup so profound and all-encompassing as to crush all hope of redemption. — Ben Fountain

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes? — Daniel Clowes

When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury is regarded as fatal. — James Henry Breasted

Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child — Sunday Adelaja

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining. — Sarah Parcak

Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit. — James Martineau

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71. — Link Wray

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before
more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. — Charles Dickens

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers) — Alexey Brodovitch