Tightly Quotes

267 Tightly quotes by 223 unique authors

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply. — Theodore Sturgeon
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. — Georg Buchner
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the… — Mark Bittman
Step 1, you find a girl to love. Step 2, she falls in love with you. Step 3, you kiss and hold her tightly. — Eddie Cochran
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to… — Graham Joyce
Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together.… — Garth Nix
Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed… — Bob Torres
The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly. — Frederick Lenz
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need… — David Brin
The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth,… — John Updike
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. — Sherwood Anderson
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile… — Frederick Lenz
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and… — Alan Woods
The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on… — Criss Jami
Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime.… — Daniel Goleman
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. — Arthur Erickson
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. — Milan Kundera
I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place… — Anne Lamott
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. — James Lovelock
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a… — Henri Nouwen
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on. — Arthur Smith
In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with… — Michael Symon
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a… — Charlotte Bronte
The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later… — Bernhard Schlink
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,… — Victor Hugo

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