Words matter. These are the best Overflowing Quotes from famous people such as Saint Ambrose, Italo Calvino, Emeril Lagasse, Eileen Caddy, KRS-One, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
I write… sonnets… and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I’m a little bit obsessed.
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.
I organize my closet by season, color, and silhouette, but I don’t edit often enough, which causes me to hoard Hermes cuffs in Hermes bags that are crammed into my living room because my closet is overflowing.
Do I post pictures of my overflowing laundry basket or the dirty dishes by the sink? No, I’ll probably post a pic of the finished meal looking pretty. We’re all skewed in what we show.
Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.
Everybody does good things, but I’m talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I’m talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I’m talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.
Because I love shopping, my house is overflowing with clothes. Most of them were bought by myself.
You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.
Remember that you don’t choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
The Wall on Shabbat was one of the coolest experiences, full of joy and energy. I left Israel overflowing with pride. It’s a magical, welcoming place.
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
All kinds of ways of expression are spreading out all over the place, information is overflowing, and it’s harder and harder to be excited about anything.
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down… Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period.
I guess I’m not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can’t honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.
It wasn’t a good idea to work on ‘Naked’ in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.
For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn’t matter why: it could be because you’re happy, but it gives you that feeling that you’re overflowing.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth better, I feel that my chest is overflowing with a feeling of pride.
The cup of Ireland’s misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
I did not have activities in the Philippines before, but many fans recognized me and greeted me with overflowing cheers. ‘Moonlight Drawn by Clouds’ was said to have aired through KBS World. I didn’t know that.
I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There’s shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That’s why I pay no mind.
