Pressed Quotes

373 quotes by 305 authors

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes.… — William Christopher Handy
Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough… — Michael Cunningham
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a… — Walter E. Williams
Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and… — Nancy Gibbs
This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have… — Oswald J. Smith
But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a… — Rob Brezsny
Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed… — Daniel Harvey Hill
It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom… — Charles Sumner
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. — Edward Fairfax
All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against… — James Atlas
Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with… — Octavius Winslow
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in… — Kealan Patrick Burke
If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if… — John C. Calhoun
Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them. — David Deida
I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he… — Brad Alan Lewis
I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what it took. No… — Francesca Lia Block
Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces… — Thomas a Kempis

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