Pinched Quotes

38 quotes by 35 authors

Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess… — Martin Amis
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness — Caitlin Thomas
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy… — E E Cummings
Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming… — Michael J. Fox
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real… — Bruce Sterling
If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18). — Douglas Wilson
I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's… — Jennifer Aniston
I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then! — Kajol
The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind. — Philip Wylie
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux
It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not. — Robert Redford
It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up.… — Joan D. Chittister
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of… — Thomas Fuller
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove… — William Shakespeare
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is… — Margaret Atwood
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen,… — Emily Bronte
Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin… — Maggie Stiefvater
Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter… — Barbara Kingsolver
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched… — Neal Shusterman

Who Wrote These Pinched Quotes

35 authors contributed a total of 38 Pinched Quotes, led by these top contributors: