Overtopping Quotes & Sayings

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. — Audrey Niffenegger

Behind him she saw something which by contrast with the alien incalculable figure before her, was close and real. It was something which she understood, something which she could never do without, or be without, for it seemed as though it were her own self, her own body, at which she gazed and which lay so intimately upon the skyline. Gormenghast. The long, notched outline of her home. It was now his background. It was a screen of walls and towers pocked with windows. He stood against it, an intruder, imposing himself so vividly, so solidly, against her world, his head overtopping the loftiest of its towers. — Mervyn Peake

It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet. — Aubrey Plaza

My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person. — Julian Lennon

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right. — Abraham Lincoln

The mind can never foresee its own advance — Friedrich A. Hayek

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries. — Brandon Stanton

Already many of the surrounding buildings had disappeared beneath the proliferating vegetation. Huge club mosses and calamites blotted out the white rectangular faces, shading the lizards in their window lairs. Beyond the lagoon, the endless tides of silt had begun to accumulate into enormous glittering banks, here and there overtopping the shoreline like the immense tippings of some distant goldmine. The light drummed against his brain, bathing the submerged levels below his consciousness, carrying him downwards to warm pellucid depths, where the nominal realities of time and space ceased to exist. Guided by his dreams, he was moving back into his emergent past, through a succession of ever stranger landscapes centered on the lagoon, each of which seemed to represent one of his own spinal levels. — J.G. Ballard

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect. — Nick Hornby

Waves are toys from God. — Clay Marzo

I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice. — Sharron Angle

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is Good But Sourav Ganguly Best Captain — Yuvraj Singh

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order. — T. S. Eliot

and then everyone was dead. — Jacob Grimm

It's delicious, ingenious, perfect, intelligent that you never felt like you fit in. It means that you were always alive, and therefore unique and irreplaceable, designed to resist any kind of labeling whatsoever, unable to be pinned down or reduced to a category. — Jeff Foster

Britain has become a net exporter of Islamism and jihadism. My former Islamist group didn't exist in Pakistan until we exported it from Britain. — Sam Harris