Quotes About Overkill

Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.

It just seems like overkill when you already have a dagger and I have superpowerful magic at my disposal." 'Superpowerful?'"He stood up, a gold chain dangling from his fingers. Let me remind you of two words, Mercer: Bad. Dog.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Bringing Marcus to Findlay would be like bringing a bazooka to a Tupperware party.

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.

In no other country is football lived like it is in Italy, almost to the point of overkill. There is too much football on TV and in the papers, there is always talk about football during the week.

Pike did not move his eye from the sight picture. Cole, Ramos, Park. The Zeiss was fitted with a laser range finder displaying the range in tiny red numerals in the upper right quadrant of the sight picture. Elvis Cole was forty-two meters away. Overkill. Stone

why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve

His gun was a .357 Magnum, great for whale hunting. It was overkill for anything on two legs. That was human. I felt very human staring down that gun barrel.

We would go down to the Tenderloin. Pimps beware. I was bringing the Master as backup. It was like carrying a thermonuclear device to kill ants. Overkill has always been a specialty of mine.

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

It's overkill when you put too much fragrance on. It's the worst. Not sexy, and it makes me want to puke. I'm nauseous. Know what I mean? Your game's off.

When the chronology of extinction is critically set against the chronology of human migrations," Paul Martin of the University of Arizona wrote in "Prehistoric Overkill," his seminal paper on the subject, "man's arrival emerges as the only reasonable answer" to the megafauna's disappearance.

A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with the triphammer--an absurd extravagance of energy--but the nut is very effectually crushed all the same.

At some difficult-to-determine point, among middle-class white boys in the Middle West, fights, instead of ending when a combatant hit the ground, took on new life there, the "boys will be boys" chivalry of boxing giving way to the archaic regression of overkill, a term that dates from 1946; every opponent must be spread; every offense, however minor, leads to holocaust.

No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

Still—leave it to an American to take something too far.

supererogation.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

However, you could have conveyed your enthusiasm for this idea with the use of only one exclamation point. Three is overkill.