Too Much famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
-- A. P. Herbert -
One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.
-- Aaron Spelling -
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
-- Adam Oates -
The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.
-- Adam Rex -
I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.
-- Adam Sandler -
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
-- Agatha Christie -
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
-- Agatha Christie -
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.
-- Akira Toriyama -
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
-- Al Pacino -
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
-- Al Sharpton -
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.
-- Alan Ladd -
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
-- Alan Paton -
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
-- Alan Weisman -
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
-- Albert Camus -
The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health.
-- Albert Mohler -
One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.
-- Alberto Fujimori -
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Theatrical work means too much work or none.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
-- Alejandro Amenabar -
Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.
-- Alethea Kontis -
We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.
-- Alex Agase -
I’ll never second guess the things that I have done. I’ve got too much left to say and too much to become.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
It's not just that that and that exists. It's that that, that, that, and that all exist in the same frame. I'm always looking for something more. You take in too much; perhaps it becomes total chaos. I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
-- Alex Webb -
If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
-- Alexander Pope -
You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.
-- Alice Meynell -
I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.
-- Alison Jackson -
How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
-- Ally Condie -
Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you
-- Amber Tamblyn -
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.
-- Amy Carmichael -
I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.
-- Amy Lee -
too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
-- Amy Tan -
The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
-- Andre Derain -
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
-- Andre Gide -
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
-- Andre Maurois -
The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'
-- Andrew Bird -
It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.
-- Andrew Clements -
In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.
-- Andrew Garfield -
I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.
-- Andrew Garfield -
I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
-- Andy Stern -
I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.
-- Angela Merkel -
Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.
-- Angela Merkel -
My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger,
-- Angie Harmon -
She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.
-- Ann Brashares -
It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
-- Ann Patchett -
But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ...
-- Ann Radcliffe -
I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.
-- Anna Godbersen -
You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
-- Anne Carson -
I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
-- Anne Rice -
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
-- Anne Stevenson -
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.
-- Ansel Adams -
Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
-- Anton Chekhov -
It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.
-- Anton Corbijn -
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
-- Antonio Porchia -
Sometimes, something of someone is liked too much not because it holds too much value or has a true value, but because there are too many bidders and buyers to have the same thing at the resale value.
-- Anuj -
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books
-- Aravind Adiga -
Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.
-- Arlen Specter -
I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school
-- Arno Allan Penzias -
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
-- Arthur Ashe -
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
-- Arthur Eddington -
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
-- Arthur Laffer -
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.
-- Artur Schnabel -
I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.
-- Ashley Greene -
Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.
-- Ashley Jensen -
It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
-- August Strindberg -
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
-- Augustus Hare -
I just want to be known as the greatest everis that too much to ask?
-- B.J. Penn -
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.
-- Barbara Pym