Quotes About Overabundance

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.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Talk about sloppy seconds. Was there such a thing as sloppy thousandths?

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The old man always used too much of everything, too many lemons, too much sugar, as if halfmeasures at anything were beneath him.

What is too much? There is no such thing!

much of a muchness.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not the be believed.

Nature throws living beings into this world and they must survive. The weak will perish and the strong will thrive. That is the law of nature, the aristocratic principle of life itself. Nature knows no contraception it knows only overabundance and the destruction of that which is not capable of survival. Only those worthy of surviving, survive. That's the way nature wants

Pour faire bonne mesure, j'en rajoute une couche. Le retour du jet d'ail, en quelque sorte.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

It would seem that an overabundance of thinking beings is a dangerous thing, if it reduces them to the status of sand.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

friend of mine says you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

We've got an overabundance of attention, more attention than we can cope with; our constant challenge is to control it.

Lo! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it.

so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede...

It was a small room, and it was as crowded with coffee- and end-tables, chairs and hassocks and bookcases, as a second-hand furniture store. The horizontal surfaces were littered with gewgaws, shells and framed photographs, vases and pincushions and doilies. If the lady had come down in the world, she'd brought a lot down with her. My sensation of stepping into the past was getting too strong for comfort. The half-armed chair closed on me like a hand.

We die of too much life.

Awards have lost their charm. The experience of getting an award has completely dissolved. Awards functions start in December and go on till April and are distributed for anything and everything. Categories like Best Jodi, Best Dressed Celebrity are all redundant.