Best Overlapping Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.”

Author:Edgar Degas

“I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.”

Helping Approach Unique Plus Efficiency Synergy Guerrillas Overlapping

Author:Rick Steves

“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”

“Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.”

Perspective Shapes Depth Indication Linear Overlapping

Author:Rex Brandt

“Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.”

Responsibility Office Ancient Priorities Boards Usa Agency Accountability Divided Overlapping

Author:Lou Gerstner

“[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.”

Wells Two Facts Individual Known Contact Well Known Selected Overlapping

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.”

“Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.”

Moments Form Given Space Landscape Multiple Moments In Time Intricacy Overlapping

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation.”

Men May Different Self Speak Language Social Moral Share Research Men And Women Assuming Vocabulary Systematic Propensity Different Languages Overlapping Social Relationships

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.”

Feelings Curious Planes Confusing Living On Overlapping

Book:My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan

Source: My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan

“What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.”

Thinking Values Goal Fundamentals Advertising Google Youtube Think Of You Overlapping Advertising Business

Author:Salar Kamangar

“Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.”

People Feels May Persons Sometimes Turns Chance Streets Willing Towns Library Neighbor Circles Being The Best Friendly Pool Small Town Acquaintance Overlapping Lexington

Author:Kim Edwards

“The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.”

Men Feels Mind Lasts Views Concern Absolutes Philosophical Superiors Shallow Philosophic Overlapping

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”

Political Decision Power Share Economic Military Events Consequence Decided Circles Elites Intricate Clique Overlapping

Book:The Power Elite

Source: The Power Elite

“A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.”

Ifs Knows Heart Said Soul Moments Conversation Miracle Harmony Instruments Notes Connected Your Soul That Moment Exchanging Violinist Overlapping

Author:KAORI

“Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.”

Wells Courses Born Animal Brain Emotional Areas Reasoning Intuitive Interacting Overlapping Throttle

Author:Michael Longley

“It is my belief that exciting things happen when a variety of overlapping activities designed for all people-the old and the young, the blue and white collar, the local inhabitant and the visitor, different activities for different occasions-meet in a flexible environment, opening up the possibility of interaction outside the confines of institutional limits. When this takes place, deprived areas welcome dynamic places for those who live, work and visit; places where all can participate, rather than less or more beautiful ghettos.”

“My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.”

Two Discipline Dues Block Factors Laziness Writer's Block Overlapping

Author:Mary Garden

“Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.”

Humanity Universe Overlapping

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.”

Way May Sometimes Use Might Scene One Way Overlapping Using Words

Author:Fred Schepisi

“Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"”

Moments Hands Brain Doors Car Keys Overlapping

Author:Rich Hall

“Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.”

Space Series Complexes Simplicity Wave Patterns Various Familiar Explanation Multiple Frequency Theorems Overlapping Fourier

Author:Bruce Hood

“The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.”

Photograph Instant Metamorphosis Overlapping Overtaking

Book:The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting

Source: The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting

“I'm conscious of the fact that a lot of Ekoplekz material got released in quick succession. It was difficult for people to keep up. The thing is, once you hand over the material to the label you have no control over when something comes out - at one point I had whole LPs that were overlapping.”

People Whole Facts Hands Difficult Materials Conscious Labels Succession Overlapping

Author:Ekoplekz

“There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression."”

Together Form Culture Behinds Theory Racism Oppression Etc Sexism Interconnected Victimhood Intersectionality Classism Overlapping

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“You have two parties that are funded by deep corporate interests, largely overlapping, that you begin to see a convergence. You have the Republican intelligentsia and the Republican spokespeople, and 50 GOP security figures who have all come into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. Not to mention Mitt Romney, who has defected from [Donald] Trump, although it's not clear where his vote is going to be. But everyone from John Negroponte to Meg Whitman have all declared allegiance to Hillary. And Hillary has likewise, very formally opened the door to encouraging Republicans to come in.”

Two Interest Party Clear Doors Security Figures Trump Republican Vote Clinton Corporate Camps Romney Allegiance Gop Convergence Meg Overlapping Spokespeople

Author:Jill Stein

“The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion of there being a root down at the quantum level between intention and reality, between consciousness and existence - it's not a matter of trying to explain the mystery of magic away with a pat mechanism of a pseudoscience, it's just a matter of trying to ground it in a domain.”

“There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.”

Children Book Kids Age Groups Huge Adults Areas Appropriate Overlapping

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.”

Different Choices Brain Democracy Built Experts Representatives Multiple Overlapping Different Choices

Author:David Eagleman

“We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

“I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Can Do Company Industry Activity Fundamentals Advertising Consumers Phenomenon Platforms Google Overlapping Advertising Industry

Author:Eric Schmidt

“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”

Hands Night Sides Dark Silence Arms Possession Beach Phrases Sat Touched Comment Pale Elegant One Night Progression Ankles Overlapping

Author:A. S. Byatt

“Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.”

Giving Made Hard Helping Form Easy Accepting Keys Needed Findings Chains Breathing Links Locks Overlapping Giving Help

Book:Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.”

“People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.”

People World Different Hate Culture Sides Groups Teaching Identity Tradition Who We Are Thrive Different Religions Overlapping

Author:Kofi Annan

“Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.”

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.”

Made Book Black Dark Sea Pages Ships Sail Ink Floats Overlapping Night Circus

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied.”

Doors Heard Wall Beats Opposites Horse Stuck Holes Quarrels Psychotic Staircases Overlapping Gunshots Crossbows Projectile Rocking Horses

Author:Brandon Mull

“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.”

Ifs Might Remember Purpose Strong Memories Twenties Aim Uncertainty Confused Uncertain Patches Short Life Entirety Overlapping Backtracking

Author:Julian Barnes

“It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.”

Done Universe Felt Lines Gravity Serendipity Overlapping

Book:The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

“[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).”

Men Influence Materials Involved Messages Salvation Islam Traditional Prophet Collections Word Of God Biblical Judaism Mosaics Arabian Man Of God Overlapping Attribution

Author:John Wansbrough

“A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.”

“In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed. There are facets of the hierarchy which do not flow naturally from any sort of random undirected evolutionary process. If the hierarchy suggests any model of nature it is typology and not evolution. How much easier it would be to argue the case for evolution if all nature's divisions were blurred and indistinct, if the systema naturalae was largely made up of overlapping classes indicative of sequence and continuity.”

“Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.”

Running Sensual Flames Feathers Exquisite Brilliance Melting Overlapping Flapping

Book:Lady chatterleys lover

Source: Lady chatterleys lover

“The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism.”

Way Heart Moving Behinds Practice Seeing Ordinary Essence Extraordinary Everyday Curiosity Crafts Parks Shops Traveler Everyday Life Veils Tourism Soulful Chapel Overlapping

Author:Phil Cousineau

“Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.”

Source: The Theology of the Hammer

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.”

Knows Differences Strength Comfort Diversity Brotherhood Comforting Unity In Diversity Overlapping Individual Differences

Author:Ani DiFranco