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1 " Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. "
― Virginia Woolf , A Room of One's Own
2 " In living this way, we discover new opportunities for comfort and enjoyment. Where the younger person may have tossed and turned throughout a sleepless night, the older man or woman can possibly feel the pleasure that comes from lying on a good mattress, resting one's weary bones and overcharged intellect, whether or not one sleeps throughout the hours of darkness. "
― , Meaning In Life, Volume 3: The Harmony Of Nature And Spirit (Irving Singer Library)
3 " There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants. "
― Tom Holt
4 " When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. "
― Thomas Hobbes