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Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. -- Diane Setterfield
You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently. -- Sylvia Day
For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. -- Tim Vine
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. -- Salman Rushdie
To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old! -- Christopher Lee
I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. -- D. H. Lawrence
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. -- Gustave Flaubert
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. -- Ian Jackson
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. -- China Mieville
The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback. -- Charles Kennedy
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. -- Giorgio Napolitano
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. -- Jean Anouilh
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. -- John W. Gardner
After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued. -- William Henry Ashley
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. -- Shirley MacLaine
My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life. -- George W. Romney
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. -- Virginia Woolf
I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man. -- Richie Sambora
But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States. -- Robert Mueller
Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor. -- Barry Ritholtz
If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong. -- Barry Ritholtz
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth. -- Tony Judt
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money. -- Gavid Hood
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial system, and they must ensure that these firms do not become excessively reliant on liquidity support from the central bank. -- Ben Bernanke
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting. -- Jonathan Cain
I am excessively diverted. -- Jane Austen
And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you? -- Gail Carriger
Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical. -- William Kristol
A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. -- Carl Jung
There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. -- Mitt Romney
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. -- Joan Robinson
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. -- Henning Mankell
Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world. -- Voltaire
The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life. -- Vera Brittain
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious. -- Agatha Christie
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. -- Paul Cezanne
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like? -- Saint John Chrysostom
You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? -- David Mamet
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. -- Yann Martel
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating -- Jean Anouilh
The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard. -- Ruth Minshull
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. -- Oscar Wilde
The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively. -- Rand Paul
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. -- Paul Bourget
Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal. -- Leslie Jamison
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses, -- Craig Johnson
...co-rumination: the problem of talking too much about anything. Specifically,... when girls rehash their problems excessively, it leads to depression, anxiety, and a sense of hopelessness. -- Levine
I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively. -- John Shimkus
Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?" -- Bex Taylor-Klaus
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly! -- Georgette Heyer
There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole. -- Edward Lear
As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons. -- Charles Darwin
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. -- Eric Hoffer
We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet." -- Eleanor Catton
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail. -- Alice Miller
I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively. -- Curtis Jackson
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result "? ruthlessness in political life. -- Richard Hofstadter

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