Overkill Quotes

• The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.

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  Yvon Chouinard

  Technology   Thinking   Climbing  

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• Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

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  Richelle Mead

  Stars   Fire   Skeletons  

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.156, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Bill Bryson

  Horse   Mean   Australia  

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

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  Michele Bachmann

  Conservative   Problem   Complicated  

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• That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

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  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf   Swings   Years  

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

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  Elton John

  Art   Distance   Media  

  Song: Goodbye Marlon Brando Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Reg Strikes Back

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• The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.

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  Dahr Jamail

  Cities   America   United States  

  Dahr Jamail (2016). “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, p.239, Haymarket Books

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• You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

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  Tim Finn

  Running   Hurt   Rain  

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• If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

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  Howard Tayler

  Lasts   Violence   Enough  

  "Schlock Mercenary" by Howard Tayler,

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• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

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  Camille Paglia

  Song   Emotional   Vocabulary  

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• Don't be an asshole," the guy snapped as he cracked a freshie. "Oh, right, because two in this group would be overkill.

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  J.R. Ward

  Two   Guy   Groups  

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.362, Penguin

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• That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

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  Michele Bachmann

  Conservative   Problem   Complicated  

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

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  April Winchell

  Thinking   Hands   Bags  

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• You're my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible." "So you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?

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  Christine Feehan

  Dog   Children   Men  

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• With the supplies gathered, he went over to the stainless-steel sink and pressed the foot pedal to get the water running. While he washed his hands, he said quietly, "If I could, I would." "Excuse me?" Qhuinn pumped some suds into his palms and scrubbed all the way up his forearms. Which was overkill, but if Blay wanted him superclean, then that was what he was going to be. "If I could love a guy like that, it would be you.

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  J.R. Ward

  Running   Hands   Feet  

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1277, Penguin

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• Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

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  Mary E. Pearson

  Different   Needs   Closets  

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.101, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Tom Jones

  Thinking   Hands   Looks  

  "My Exclusive Interview with Sir Tom Jones, in Which I Fail to Learn How to Be More Like Tom Jones". Interview with Tony Sachs, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2009.

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