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Truth is overrated.
If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.
I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.
is a small word with a big reach. There
Too much is the same as not enough.
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
OMFGEIGHTPOUNDBABYJESUSONAPOGOSTICK WHAT?
Is the most pitiful word in history, and it's a lame excuse,
over? He's just going through a phrase.
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
I fall way beyond the norm on the verb.
For any thing so overdone is
from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the
first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the
mirror up to nature;
I overwhelm even myself.
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.
I am just too much.-- Bette Davis
Never is too long a word even for me...
I hate that word, by the way. Retarded. I
Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
Exaggeration is overweight truth.
I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
Dearest Virgin - um, Oversexed Lassiter
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you.
Mark Andrew Ramsay
Understate and over-prove.
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.
I do tend to overdo everything.
When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.
I'm not at all overextended ... I'm very, very hands-on.
Over and out." "You obviously-- E.l. James
Sometimes
a word is found so right it trembles
at the slightest explanation.
Ordinary raised to extraordinary.
Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language
Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.
if a word doesn't work for you anymore, then drop it and replace it with one that does work.
... for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.
Caught red-handed for exclamation abuse.
The superfluous is very necessary.
Those three words, are said too much, and not enoughWords-- Snow Patrol
I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
Use, don't abuse.Abuse-- Grace Jones
Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!
Too much is just enough.-- Mark Twain
That's bollocks,' said Owen's voice over the loudspeakers.
'That a medical term?' asked Jack.
'It is when I use it.
the one Word that rips apart the day...
It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.
A single word often betrays a great design.
...too-muchness had no doubt been noticed at school, for it was around this time that I received a school report that said, 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.
Where there is too much, something is missing.
There are some days when I, myself , think I'm overrated
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
Enough! Or too much.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Are you overdone yet?
There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.
There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.
The dictionary is a perfect example of overalphabetization, with its harsh rules and every little word neatly in place. It almost makes me want to go on a diet of grapes and waste away to nothing.
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
WORTHLESS, USELESS
Adorkable. It's in its own category.
Anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.
People do too much. They say too much.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.
I carried it too far, thats for sure.
Disproportionate.
Useless"-what they call you when you won't let yourself be used.
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
It was fine. I'm getting real tired of that word. It's a nothing word, and when people say it, it never really means what it's supposed to.
This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles.
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.
I like being underestimated.
People get uncomfortable that word.
I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
Beautiful, Lili. I love that word, but it's not enough for you. Not nearly.
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
Thankful. Blessed. Loved.
My favorite word? Yes.
Love is actually overrated except when you are in love
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
Very' is such a strong word...
The worthy officer had just given birth to this high-sounding adverb ...
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
But don't we all like to be overpowered, one time or another.