I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes. — John Legend
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. — George Orwell
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few. — Joan Aiken
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. — Yunus Emre
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash
There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed! — Otto Rank
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound. — Walter Annenberg
Political correctness is akin to antibiotics: use it frivolously for everything & you'll breed your own custom tailored incurable nightmare. — Eric Weinstein
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bullshit before. — Tommy Cooper
Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it.
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it. — Redman
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. — Johannes Brahms
Short Overused Quotes
Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you" — Lee Brice
Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real. — Hilary Duff
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. — Denis Waitley
You can't handle the truth! — Jack Nicholson
The words I overuse are all adverbs. — Sam Shepard
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. — Artur Davis
I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused. — Richard Donner
I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused. — Arthur Schwartz
Love can become overused. — Hannes Holm
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Most Overused Quotes
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking. — Bergen Evans
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. — Richard Neal
When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important. — A-Trak
Well, I think “likability” is an overused word. I don’t watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different... Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows. — Louis C. K.
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
Underused Quotes
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. — Darren Aronofsky
A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.) — Dale Dauten
The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit. — Evan Harris
I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me. — Ben Affleck
My iPod holds 3,000 albums. I own, like, 90 albums. My iPod sits at home, sullen, frustrated, and underused, like a wife who gave up her career and the kids turned out to be shite. — Dara O Briain
Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction. — Cynthia PropperSeton
Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it. — Sally Kohn
Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns. — Seth Godin
When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource. — Hillary Clinton
Women are the world's most underused resource. — Hillary Clinton
Fair' is, like, this incredibly overused term in negotiations: 'I just want what's fair.' 'What's the fair market price?' — Chris Voss
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky. — Andrew Bird
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. — Fritz Kreisler
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney. — Alan Rickman
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts — Yvon Chouinard
Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces risks or the home environment promotes problem-free labors. — Henci Goer
Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff. — Rian Johnson
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation. — Murray Rothbard
I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused. — Marlee Matlin
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 a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed. — Sandra Postel
Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles. — Elie Saab
[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in London. And he didn't overuse synthesizers. He used them just enough. It's such a cool sound. — Fred Armisen
In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point. — Emmett Tyrrell
I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough:
Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy. — Tim Ferriss
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. — Jodi Picoult
At this moment, glyphosate is the biggest threat. And because of its overuse, we are seeing the emergence of superweeds, which have grown resistant to glyphosate. This has led to biotech corporations developing even more toxic herbicides, including 2,4-D, one of the main components of Agent Orange. — Zoe Lister-Jones
I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film. — Jonathan Demme
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it. — Anais Nin
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary. — Jules Feiffer
It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology. — Victor Davis Hanson
I go through phases where I'll overuse words. S.E. Hinton, who wrote The Outsiders - she and I have been in contact for the 50th anniversary of the book - and she said, "You still owe me the 10 dollars that we bet that you couldn't stop saying the word 'gnarly.'" — Rob Lowe
I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now. — Alexander Weinstein
This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally fearless. He jumped in and played with us comedically and improvised a lot. A lot of jokes in those scenes with him are from him improvising. — Ed Helms
I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail. — Rigoberto Gonzalez
I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen. — Biz Stone
I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style. — George Lucas
I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood. — Romany Malco
I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down. — Anne Waldman
Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against bad plastic surgery. I'm against the overuse of plastic surgery. — Michelle Pfeiffer
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 overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste. — Frederick Lenz
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