Quotes About Overhead

In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.

The wind funnelled down the covered platform, jostling the passengers and tearing at their clothes. A woman's scarf whipped by overhead, somersaulting as if intoxicated by the sudden taste of freedom.

Sometimes happiness is like the sound of a plane overhead. You look up to see it but the plane's not there. No matter where you look you can't find it on the sky, although the sound is still there and growing louder. You get a little frantic searching. At the same time you're thinking, this is stupid. But you keep looking and if you do finally see it, you feel absolved. Most of my life I'd been looking for happiness in the wrong parts of the sky.

The jet bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, one and one and one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him.

The process of adapting to the new conditions was slow and painful, but it need not have been. It was fifteen years or more before the studios began dimly to understand how best to operate in the new environment. Aging owners and production heads rigidly clung to the old methods of mass production in studio complexes with enormous overhead costs.

Overhead the rain still pounded, with a remote sound, as if it was somebody else's rain.

The great vault over our heads was gradually filled with clarity like a glass with wine.

One morning I was bicycling to class when a large flock of Canada geese passed overhead. I couldn't see them, or much of anything else, but I heard the jazzy honking.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

Tarik reappeared from room 104 carrying a soft-sided blue travel bag, large enough to hold a week's worth of clothes, small enough to fit in an airplane's overhead bin.

Banners flout the sky.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

I forgot the shaking of the willows in the windless calm, the humming overhead, everything except that I was waiting for an answer that I dreaded more than I can possibly explain.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

went to see Elmer O'Neill at his office in a converted gas station in Arlington. The gas pumps were gone, but the low concrete pedestal on which they'd once sat was still there. "I see what you mean about low overhead," I said when I went in. "Overhead any lower," Elmer said, "and I couldn't stand up straight.

John Freeman and Michael Hannan asked why the size of the administrative component—administrative overhead—seems to rise inexorably in organizations.

And birds take places overhead, To bear them orchestra

Fluorescent overhead lighting would be a frightening choice, although acceptable if you keep the switch in the "off" position—or if the bulbs are all burnt out.

your distance isn't because you're far away, it's because you're a thousand feet overhead, trying to look at all the little parts, seeing which ones need to be fixed.

Overhead, spiece of the night came loose, dropping from the top of a high boulder which leaned from the right.