Overdrive Quotes

• I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

  Terence Stamp

  Thinking, Energy

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• If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Hands, Sides, Serious

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• During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

  Robin Trower

  Stuff, Made, Periods

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• I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Memories, Nice, Names

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• I waved my hand in front of my face, obi-wan style. "I am not here." Niall's mucas glands kicked into overdrive. "Eoin's dead! And his ghost is standing right there on the grass!" Donal let out a long suffering sigh. "Eoin is being a writer." Niall calmed down, becuase everyone knows writers are weird and are always doing stupid thingss.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Hands, Long

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• Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Clouds, Might, Path

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Blessing, Imagination, Long

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• Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.

  Julia Stiles

  Running, Yoga, Focus

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

  Brian Setzer

  Would Be, Ears, Being Cool

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• The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Fall, People, Interesting

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• If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.

  Frank Rich

  Needs, Magazines, Etc

  Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2008.

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• He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Moving, Suicidal

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• When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Believe, Successful, Needs

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