Overuse Quotes

25 quotes by 23 authors

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is… — Bergen Evans
Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you" — Lee Brice
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs… — Prince Charles
What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. — Christopher Hitchens
Avoid overuse of 'quotation â€œmarks.â€' — William Safire
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. — Tim Ferriss
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. — Denis Waitley
When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you… — Al Michaels
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have… — Marcel Proust
Once when my father-in-law was leaving the house after lunch to return to the field to work, my mother-in-law said, 'Albert, you get right back… — Joe J. Christensen
Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for… — Sandra Postel
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't… — Frederick Lenz
Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of… — Zadie Smith
Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Bewareâ€”Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But… — Jerry Spinelli
My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind — Tana French
This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when… — Elizabeth Scott
This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing… — Jonathan Franzen
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. — Chuck Palahniuk
The words I overuse are all adverbs. — Sam Shepard
The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle… — S. Jay Olshansky

Who Wrote These Overuse Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 25 Overuse Quotes as follows: