Over Quotes

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.