Overemphasis Quotes

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

Never a man to understate matters

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it.

Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that.

Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!

If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.

It should not all be about badminton.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like being forced to watch someone else's small child jumping up and down crazily in the center of the living room shouting to attract attention. If a sentence really has something of importance to say, something quite remarkable, it doesn't need a mark to point it out. And if it is really, after all, a banal sentence needing more zing, the exclamation point simply emphasizes its banality!

Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already - it's ridiculous.

You'll go see a movie like 'Matrix 2,' and the car chase goes on and on and on and on. They had all the money in the world and all the time in the world. It doesn't make it an any better action sequence.

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.