Compact Quote by Josie Brown

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…

— Adrienne Rich

A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they…

— Burt Rutan

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water…

— William Falconer

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

— Marianne Faithfull

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting…

— John C. Calhoun

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A compact defense has always been the basis of Italy's team.

— Fabio Cannavaro

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past…

— Susannah McCorkle

Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions.…

— Joanna Lohman

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right,…

— James Madison