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It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard. — Michael Chabon

Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class. — Maureen Corrigan

It was as though all the passengers on the Titanic were roped together, and the fattest guy had just fallen overboard. — Mitch Feierstein

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard. — Karl Barth

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history. — Peter Eisenman

Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard. — Brandon Mull

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid. — Aoife O'Donovan

I typically go overboard when I research new projects. — Will Wright

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard. — Germaine Greer

You ought to take care how you bat those eyelashes, sweetheart. One of these days, you're likely to knock a man overboard. — Tessa Dare

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away. — William Zinsser

I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard. — George Foreman

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind. — Dawn Powell

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard. — Yann Martel

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard. — Andy Borowitz

I should make sure my brethren don't go too overboard with the root beer. — Rick Riordan

Family is everything!" he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. "If you don't have family, what do you have? — Sonal Panse

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink. — Dorianne Laux

Hire prudently, go slow and don't go overboard. — Lori Greiner

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. — Grace Hopper

Let's all throw unhappiness overboard. — Jan Ellison

f While Mr. William Bradford was absent in the shallop, his wife Dorothy accidentally fell overboard from the Mayflower at Cape Cod and was drowned. — James Thacher

Going overboard on a quest for perfection leads to life suckage and backsliding. — James S. Fell

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. — Richard Schmid

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard. — Shannen Doherty

Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard. — Cassandra Clare

Rick: Can you swim?
Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it.
Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it. — Max Allan Collins

I am girl overboard.
But you do make drowning fun. — Casey Renee Kiser

The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle — Saul Williams

Don't go overboard with too many accessories and too many different things. — Freja Beha Erichsen

Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen. — Freddie Mercury

It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard. — Alexandra Roach

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard. — Martial

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard. — Bill Goldberg

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. — Cary Cooper

Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy. — Arthur Schopenhauer

When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard." — Russell M. Nelson

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic. — Aoife O'Donovan

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another. — Mark Twain

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard. — Harsha Bhogle

I'm not saying all the women were hot. Some of them, if they fell overboard, they'd be harpooned by Japs. — Dave Barry

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. — Isabel Allende

You manage things; you lead people. — Grace Hopper

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. — Sarah Dessen

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it. — Charles Spurgeon

Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn't match the pace of the port team. — Neal Stephenson

Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. — Jentezen Franklin