Overshot Quotes & Sayings

Borrowed from my former superintendent of schools: 'Change is inevitable, growth is optional. — Robert L. Hunton

Oh God, that hurts," she whimpered.
"What hurts?" Kye asked, sounding concerned.
"The invisible man pounding spikes into my head."
"That doesn't sound good. Maybe you should take out an invisible Taser gun and zap the son of a bitch. — Julie James

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more. — Ariel Pink

What you believe of yourself is what you will become. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human. — Simon Sinek

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use. — Arthur Koestler

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig. — Tia Carrere

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. — Arthur Koestler

I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get. — Toni Morrison

Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule — Valerie Steele

I don't want to replace anyone, especially Charlie Sheen. — John Stamos

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it. — Sophie Swetchine

Late-sleeping Utopians, especially, persist like mercury. I am a fanatic myself, although not a woman of temperament. I get nervous at scenes. I stole a washcloth once from a motel in Angkor Wat. The bellboy was incensed. I had to give it back. To promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity - I believe all that. I go to parties almost whenever I am asked. I think a high tone of moral indignation, used too often, is an ugly thing. I get up at eight. Quite often now I have a drink before eleven. In some ways, I have overshot my mark in life in spades. — Renata Adler

When my time comes, promise me that you'll keep on dancing, Sandra demanded. — Melody Anne

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation of man from material cares-and has become an obsessive image hanging over the present. Offered the choice of love or a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal. — Ivan Chtcheglov

Brown, I say, deep brown. Like coffee without any milk. — David Levithan

Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors, and made to support the Party. — Charles Dickens

Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the world, in the principle of things expressing itself in splendid specificity, a handful of images: a lover's irreplaceable body, the roil and shimmer of the sea overshot with sunlight, a handful of cherries, the texture and weight of a word. The word that seems most apt is partake ... We can say we partake of something but we may just as accurately say we take part in something' we are implicated in another being, which is always the beginning of wisdom, isn't it- that involvement which enlarges us, which engages the heart, which takes out of the routine limitations of self? — Mark Doty

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark. — Mason Cooley