Overboard Quotes

Overboard Quote of the day

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.

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.

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

Hire prudently, go slow and don’t go overboard.

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

Don't go overboard with too many accessories and too many different things.

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.

People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)

It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard.

What's the good thing about being an actor, you can do more things. Not just being a comedian, not going overboard but expressing myself within the confines of a film.