Quotes about oversized (16 Quotes)



    Alice was scrutinizing my boring jeans-and-a-T-shirt outfit in a way that made me self-conscious. Probably plotting another makeover. I sighed. My indifferent attitude to fashion was a constant thorn in her side. If I'd allow it, she'd love to dress me everyday--perhaps several times a day--like some oversized three-dimensional paper doll.


    After gorging on faddish, oversized SUVs for years, while studiously avoiding more rational vehicle choices, drivers in this country have woken up with a relentless hangover from Katrina made up of the double-whammy of tight supplies and jaw-dropping prices.

    It just feels right again. If you watch MTV and the hip-hop generation, they're starting to wear ties again. It used to be all about the football jerseys and the oversized outfits, but now things are getting fitted again.


    Hope dangles on a string Like slow spinning redemption Winding in and winding out The shine of it has caught my eye And roped me in So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing I am captivated Chorus I am Vindicated I am selfish I am wrong I am right I swear I'm right I swear I knew it all along And I am flawed But I am cleaning up so well I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself So clear Like the diamond in your ring Cut to mirror your intentions Oversized and overwhelmed The shine of which has caught my eye And rendered me so isolated, so motivated I am certain now that Chorus So turn Up the corners of your lips Part them and feel my finger tips Trace the moment, fall forever Defense is paper thin Just one touch and I'd be in Too deep now to ever swim against the current So let me slip away 3x So let me slip against the current So let me slip away 4x Chorus Slight hope It dangles on a string Like slow spinning redemption...

    I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

    Hennessey, a town board member, made the proposal in three separate news conferences yesterday in Manorville, Centereach and Miller Place where he delivered an oversized mock check to individual homeowners. At every home I visit, people are asking for tax relief, ... That is consistent and persistent.


    We had economic growth of 8.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 1999, and a lot of business plans were based on that oversized growth, ... When you make capital spending plans based on that kind of economic growth, you're going to get a lot of problems.

    If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The United States is a gigantic John Candy of a country, straining its oversized elasticated pants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The country is addicted to more or less everything, constantly craving greater and greater quantities of petrol, electricity, pointless sports, empty patriotism, fatty hormone-crammed meat, gigantic pedestrian-crushing four-wheel drive trucks, ever more baseball caps with nonsense written on them and unquestioning obedience from every nation on the planet.

    Every season I buy a double-breasted jacket but it could be fitted, very boxy. It could be oversized. It could be forties-shaped. So I think it's my job to make it desirable and new for the customer and the customer always has to fill in that slot in their wardrobe.

    Then when you replace your old unit, you can actually downsize that new unit -- meaning you can put in a smaller furnace than the one you had before -- both saving money on the initial cost of the replacement furnace and assuring that it will be running at maximum efficiency, since it will not be oversized.

    We want to go ahead and (get) the voting system that will make us compliant. We won't change our primary system. We'll have maybe one device in each polling place, maybe one touch screen or auto mark device. It takes a hard ballot, slides up into this unit and it marks the hard ballot. Earphones can tell the voter what's on the ballot, and there are (oversized) keys for the blind folks. They push a button and the ballot comes back out.

    I would say that we have the masculine shape that is kind of oversized. It's not a women's oversized, but it's men's pieces on women and a little bit more loose, not so narrow as it was before,

    It's horrifying when you see the lack of design sense or connection to the community. At the end of the day, we're left with oversized buildings that are insensitive to our funkiness.



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