Over It Quotes - Page 8

• I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

  Amy Waldman

  Powerful, Coffee, Writing

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• When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

  Frank Yerby

  Trouble

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• Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Believe, Divorce, America

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• I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Drinking, Thinking, Rivers

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• All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

  Robert Adams

  Land, Grace, Matter

  Robert Adams, University of Missouri--St. Louis. Gallery 210 (1976*). “Aspects of American photography, 1976: April 1-April 30, 1976, Gallery 210”

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• I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

  Twyla Tharp

  Running, Records, Spine

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• I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

  Banksy

  World, Paint, Ifs

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• It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

  Stephen Daldry

  Criticism, Pieces, Way

  "Stephen Daldry: 'Hollywood? I've never even been there...'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

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• Choose to win
  Get mad, then get over it.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Military, Winning, Mad

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• What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Morning, Father

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

  Kid Cudi

  Clouds, People, Hip Hop

  "Kid Cudi: Mad Man On The Moon". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. September 17, 2010.

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• The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

  Stephen Leacock

  Greatness, Men, Feet

  1910 Literary Lapses,'The Life of John Smith'.

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• It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Painting, Curtains

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

  Abraham Cowley

  Triumph, Conquer, Poet

  Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.86

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• In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Responsibility, Home

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• We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Attitude, Cynical, Negative

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• Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

  Helen Hunt

  Sorrow, Weapons, Faces

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• There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Names, People, House

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• I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Kissing, Feet

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• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Overcoming

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• Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

  Ed Zern

  Fishing, Honest, Fisherman

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• The only pressure I ever feel is the pressure I put on myself... I'm over it. Now I go out there and I enjoy what I do.

  Cub Swanson

  Mma, Pressure, Enjoy

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• Have fun, that's what it's all about. People get stressed over it... Let competition eat them up. That's not me, I just get in and have fun. That's what I'm here to do: Have fun and make some money doing it.

  Conor McGregor

  Fun, Mma, People

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• You have to continuously fail. You fail at something, then you get over it, then you fail some more. And after you fail, there's always something new there. And that something new can be really interesting.

  William Shatner

  Interesting, Failing, Something New

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

  Sampha

  Song, Trying, Records

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