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Quotes About Overworked

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Claire?" Claire blinked open her eyes. She looked up at her mother, wondering why their faces were so close. "You fainted." "I didn't," Claire argued, though evidence pointed to the contrary. She was lying on her back in her own driveway. The policewoman was standing over her. Claire tried in vain to think of an insect the woman resembled, but honestly, she just looked overworked and tired.
~ Karin Slaughter
Until 1930, almost all codebreaking for the U.S. government's planetary war against smuggling was handled by these two tired and perpetually overworked women, Elizebeth and her clerk
~ Jason Fagone
The United States Postal Service is overworked and under-funded.
~ Jeff Van Drew
la machine ronflait, crachait, comme une bête qu'on surmène, avec des sursauts, des coups de reins, où l'on aurait cru entendre craquer ses membres.
~ Émile Zola
What I am is tired of jam.
~ Russell Hoban
It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and f*ing figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.
~ Gillian Flynn
How much treachery is always nourished in little overworked centres of somebody else's idealism
~ Graham Greene
They may have used alien technology in these things," she said. "But the software they installed to run it all was clearly created by humans—overworked, underpaid programmers like me who take all kinds of shortcuts. The security protocols on the file-sharing system are a total joke. It only took me about five minutes to jailbreak this thing.
~ Ernest Cline
Many techies see themselves today as overworked, underappreciated lackeys of corporations that couldn't care less about either them or technology. Ballooning workloads will only deepen this attitude.
~ Bill Pfleging
blueprint as a metaphor for a design or plan is much overworked. If the temptation to use it is irresistible, at least remember that a blueprint is a completed plan, not a preliminary one.
~ Bill Bryson
Homicide detectives were to medical examiners what four-year-old children were to overworked mothers.
~ Tami Hoag
Then again, what Cosimo had said was right: he was nothing but an overworked drone in a cube farm, a minor cog in the dreary machinery of a third-rate mortgage mill, overlooked, unloved, a sidelined player in the big game
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
The sanatorium itself was charming, a group of cabins in the woods, a place for overworked urbanites to feel pleasantly melancholic. A slackertorium.
~ Keith Gessen
To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.
~ Robert Townsend
Needless to say they were usually sleep-deprived.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
And all analogies to the Holocaust are tired, overworked, boring, probably insulting, possibly true, and a major turnoff.
~ Larry Kramer
We live in the age of the over-worked, and under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
~ Oscar Wilde
Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.
~ Cheryl James
Three invalids.—Sufferings of George and Harris.—A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies.—Useful prescriptions.—Cure for liver complaint in children.—We agree that we are overworked, and need rest.—A week on the rolling deep?—George suggests the River.—Montmorency lodges an objection.—Original motion carried by majority of three to one.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I was overworked, underpaid, and socially retarded. But
~ J.A. Konrath
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
~ Oscar Wilde