Quotes About Inundated

Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

Then came upon a world in ruins an anxious youth. The children were drops of burning blood which had inundated the earth; they were born in the bosom of war, for war. For fifteen years they had dreamed of the snows of Moscow and of the sun of the Pyramids.

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

But he was so inundated with pleas that many more people were spurned than saved, generating unavoidable bitterness.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113

Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated.

Emotion pours over me like a tidal wave, drowning me with primitive force.

Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.

The citrus-belt communities are also made up of outsiders, but, not having been periodically inundated by new migrants, they have managed to retain a degree of homogeneity and compactness.

Thompson was inundated with fan mail and phone calls, which he said was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids.

Perhaps we know more about the world than we used to, and insofar as knowledge is prerequisite to understanding, that is all to the good. But knowledge is not as much a prerequisite to understanding as is commonly supposed. We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it; too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

fences, walls, and billboards. I didn't try to read them. I couldn't. My head spun as it had in my drinking

Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly.

My definition of product-market fit is you are drowning in demand - your product is being used by so many customers that you cannot handle all the new people knocking at your door!

I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point.

Drown'd, all drown'd, "In that great sea which nothing disembogues.

I'm beginning to think I feel too much. The feelings flood into me like so much water, and I am helpless against the onslaught.