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Quotes About Overboard

It is not uncommon for doctors to be chronic overachievers; Beck wasn't the first physician to go overboard with a new hobby. But
~ Jon Krakauer
Generally, I'd say that the perception is correct that the USDA is too large. It's in many instances overboard.
~ Mike Espy
Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard. Anyway, my parents were pleased that I played for him.
~ Vladimir Horowitz
Nothing is more powerful than this nihilism, an angry readiness to throw everything overboard, a willingness, a longing to become part of dissolution.
~ Doris Lessing
Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.
~ April Winchell
I love classic Christmas. I love just warmth and a little bit of glam. You gotta have the silvers and the golds and what not, but I go a little overboard.
~ Jonathan Scott
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
~ Saul Williams
The girl decided that she had but seen a bundle of refuse thrown overboard by one of the ship's crew, and a moment later sought her berth.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Aren't you going a little overboard?" I asked, picturing a day ahead of me trying to find these items in a town I didn't know. "Nonsense, darling. What's the point of a party if you don't go overboard." I sat on the sofa watching her, admiring her. Not only was she beautiful, but she had a wonderful way of shaking off life's little problems, like water off a duck's back. Nothing seemed to upset her.
~ Rhys Bowen
It'd be a good setting to jump overboard,' said Dick mildly. 'Wouldn't it?' agreed Nicole hastily. 'Let's borrow life-preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
~ Sarah Dessen
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
~ Saul Williams
Navy personnel began clamoring for it. To the embarrassment of many, the current Navy working uniform is a blue camouflage print. Unsure whether perhaps I was missing the point, I asked a Navy commander about the rationale. He looked down at his trousers and sighed. "That's so no one can see you if you fall overboard." No
~ Mary Roach
It's a sinking ship, he said. You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.
~ Michael Chabon
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
~ Sarah Dessen
When it comes to being reasonable, they rather go over the top.
~ Ian Mcewan
As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.
~ Eve Arden
I don't mind feeling cherished and wanted and protected, but Raphael - and Christian - were going overboard. 'What we have here is a rampant case of alpha male-itis,' I announced, glaring at Raphael. He raised one sleek brow in a 'Who? Me?' question. 'Well, guess what? I've suddenly become an alpha female, and that means I don't have to take any crap from either of you.
~ Katie MacAlister
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
~ Hafez
Still—leave it to an American to take something too far.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If somebody says or does something to me first, then I'll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I'm the one that has beef with somebody.
~ Cam'ron
The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.
~ Mark Duplass
We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don't use it overboard by any means. The most important thing is the music. I think we do a good job of letting that show.
~ Zacky Vengeance