A Quote by Vita Sackville-West

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.

Vita Sackville-West

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Garden Rhyme Roses Spirit

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Vita Sackville-West
English - Writer
March 9, 1892 - June 2, 1962

There comes a point when threats become so overblown that they serve to irk rather than to frighten.

Daniel Hannan

Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

Kool Keith

People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important.

Joe R. Lansdale

People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

Giles Deacon

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

Penn Jillette

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

Judge Reinhold

This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat.

Alex Smith

People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

Walt Mossberg

My reputation is so overblown. I can count the number of men I've been with on two hands; it just seems like a lot because you recognize their names.

Bebe Buell

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

Doris McCarthy

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

Charles Krauthammer

9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.

Martin Jacques

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

Allan Gurganus

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

Rowan Atkinson

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.