Excess Quotes

It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.
Alice Englert

Love, Funny, Music

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Norman Lear

Country, Violence, Constant

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
L'Wren Scott

Nothing, Balance, Key

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
Esther Dyson

Time, Business, Ignore

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
Will Oldham

Rewarding, Scarcity, Complicit

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.
James Chanos

Best, Credit, Bigger

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
James Payn

Men, Writing, Find

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
Jacques Delors

Desire, Nobody, Lead

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
Menander

Evil, Beginning, Goodness

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
Lee R. Raymond

Life, Great, Human

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
David F. Houston

Food, Past, Human

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.
John Redwood

Growth, Move, Tax

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean

Work, Time, Character

I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'
Greil Marcus

Great, Movies, Born

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
Bing Crosby

Best, Wanted, Chance

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
Jim Rogers

Mean, Through, Tough

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
John C. Ransom

Far, Nonsense, Sober

You're in a mess, and in excess.
Billy Strayhorn

The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill

Best, Wrong, Carried

Nothing exceeds like excess.
Al Jourgensen

Nothing, Exceeds

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.
Heidi Murkoff

Morning, Someone, Tell

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
Neil Kinnock

Loyalty, Political, Quality

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
James Baker

Saying, Problem, Energy

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
Peter Utley

Search, Scandal, Cries

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
James Young Simpson

Nature, Pain, Effects

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