Overly Quotations | Page 3

Those guys were not intimidated or overly excited about the environment at all. Nothing overwhelmed them. Really this was the case for them all year.

Unfortunately, the law has had precisely the effect we thought it would. A handful of overly aggressive individuals are using it as a defense for actions that appear to go beyond the pale of self-defense.

So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?

He's had so many matches that I don't know if the bonus challenge will change his mind. I'm not overly optimistic.

It interrupts things . . . delays things a little bit, but I don't think we need to be overly concerned by that.

I think the pursuit of this was overly aggressive, and this reeks of a personal vendetta to me on the part of the homeowners' association. It goes back to concerns Karen had with respect to school zoning issues.

I think the group was held back by overly pessimistic Wall Street forecasts until about November of last year. And then the budget information began to leak and it was much more positive than most had been anticipating.

I think you need to be selective in terms of the commercial banks. We've done a lot of studies in terms of credit quality in trying to figure out which ones really are at risk and which ones aren't. And I think that some of them are overly discounted at this point, like Chase Manhattan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo,

real light and not overly salty. And I like those fine noodles in there, too.

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.