Eddie Redmayne

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

English Actor

Hamish Bowles

After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.

English Journalist

Shannon Lee

I lost my father when I was four, so maybe that was always in the background. Losing my brother kicked it into overdrive. When you get to such an intense place of suffering, you either have the choice to continue suffering or figure a way not to.

American Actress

Jos Verstappen

People are asking that question again if Max is being too tough on his equipment, but that's complete nonsense. He can't overdrive, he can't break the material. We all know what it is: it's just the equipment that isn't good enough.

Dutch Driver

Emraan Hashmi

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

Indian Actor

Carol Thatcher

A mother cannot reasonably expect her grown-up children to boomerang back, gushing cosiness and make up for lost time. Absentee Mum, then Gran in overdrive is not an equation that balances.

Yngwie Malmsteen

Using double coil pickups kills a lot of the guitar tone - you lose the acoustic mechanics. With my single-coils driven through the Marshalls and overdrive, it sounds massive.

Swedish Musician

Paul Gilbert

It is the universe where all rock players live- we all use distortion, overdrive, gain and saturation. I call it 'fuzz.

American Musician

Alex Guarnaschelli

I try to sit still for about 15 minutes each morning without making lists or running in overdrive.

American Chef

Terence Stamp

I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

British Actor

Describes a situation of working very hard or intensely, often temporarily.

Intense Effort

Used when emotions are heightened, like excitement, anxiety, or anticipation.

Emotional Peak

Often used metaphorically for any system or process working at its maximum.

Metaphorical Use

Refers to car gear used for efficient high-speed driving, reducing engine stress.

High-Speed Driving

Overdrive can be used to save fuel on long journeys at stable speeds.

Fuel Efficiency

Refers to the change in an electric guitar's sound, giving it a gritty edge.

Guitar Tone

Often used to make a part of the music stand out, especially in rock genres.

Musical Emphasis

 fossil fuels have powered the freighters that have transformed global trade, connecting cotton fields to far-flung garment factories and bringing blueberries from one side of the equator to the other. Coal-powered steamships made it possible to travel farther and faster, and diesel engines took this into overdrive. What began in the early 20th century as a humble canal boat

The Carbonless Fuel That...

 Drugs like alcohol, nicotine, or heroin send dopamine into overdrive, leading some people to constantly seek that high, in other words, to be addicted. Sugar also causes dopamine to be released, though not as violently as drugs. And sugar is rare among dopamine-inducing foods. Broccoli, for example, has no effect, which probably explains

How sugar affects the...

 The malaria parasite, on the other hand, blocks an enzyme that helps the mosquitoes feed, forcing them to bite over and over and over again. The rabies virus may cause that snarling, slobbering behavior by putting the immune system into overdrive. But whatever the method, when you think about how effectively

How parasites change...

 protective intrinsic desire to build the world's a safe place and nothing bad will happen to us when probabilities are hard to estimate often those optimism biases kick in no this is real this can have consequences ok back to the brain the amygdala going into overdrive is

How Fear and Anxiety...

 are functioning incorrectly and cause us to worry about the future and our safety in it. But for many people, it goes into overdrive. They experience persistent pervasive anxiety that disrupts work, school and relationships

What's normal anxiety --...

 to create effects like distortion, overdrive, wah-wah, delay and flanger. And lest you think that the physics of music is only useful for entertainment, consider this. Some physicists think that everything in the universe

The physics of playing...

 What do you see more of in the world? The problem with the first approach is that in our mounting isolation, we divide ourselves from others. Our sense of isolation grows, because our imagination goes into overdrive

Why people of different...

 Pollen is a common offender, just because we encounter so much of it, but there's a long list of dust, animal dander, insect venom, medications, certain foods, that can send your immune system into overdrive.

Why do people have...

 fascination with the skies went into overdrive they built massive structures to make extremely detailed observations but the question is why why did the ancients construct such huge buildings to observe

Ancient Astronaut Theory...

 really important we get this line put back together and make it strong and reliable but stabilizing the new towers and lifting the line into place will require a team of 30 working overdrive