Overwhelming Quotes

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

The fame thing made me run - it got out of hand and I needed to go away.

The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

I'm terrible with big parties.

If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

Little things, when we're caught up and fretting about them, often appear to be big and meaningful and world-changing in the moment they are happening.

High expectations produce high frustrations.

The vastness of Russia devours us.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

We've tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

The simplest science book is over my head.

Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going on in a test tube. Nobody knows what it's all about. Nobody directs the energy. Stupendous. Bizarre, Baffling. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.