Overtures Define Quotes & Sayings

As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog. — Gary Delaney

Are human reactions what they've always been, or has a century or more of movies influenced our response to every stimulus — Dean Koontz

Kiss till the cow comes home. — Francis Beaumont

I told her that I'd done things in my youth that had placed me beyond the comfort and shelter of love, and so i had conducted my life in retreat. — Graham Joyce

It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude. — Howard Thurman

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What you can imagine depends on what you know. — Daniel C. Dennett

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization. — Larry Constantine

Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, "bombastic" style full of neologisms which might be described as "power-words." This symptom is observable not only in the psychiatric clinic but also among certain modern philosophers, and, above all, whenever anything unworthy of belief has to be insisted on in the teeth of inner resistance: the language swells up, overreaches itself, sprouts grotesque words distinguished only by their needless complexity. The word is charged with the task of achieving what cannot be done by honest means. — C. G. Jung

If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes. — Alexander McQueen

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball. — Lisa Leslie

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world. — Elliot Cowan