Compresses Quotes

#1. Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

John Updike

#2. With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#3. I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's Energize Compression Speedsuit. The speedsuit also compresses the core muscles to damp vibration, which lessens muscle fatigue, leaving me fresher for the bike and run.

Timothy O'Donnell

#4. Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.

Lenny Kravitz

#5. Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

Joseph Pilates

#6. This is the problem with time ... It doesn't follow its own rules. It stretches or compresses at will. It's either a lingering house guest or an escape artist.

Helen Humphreys

#7. He sits next to me, the veins on his neck and arms seeming more prominent than they did earlier. His mouth compresses, igniting his eyes with esoteric light, pulling me into the magnetic undertow.

Poppet

#8. A labyrinth is an ancient device that compresses a journey into a small space,

Rebecca Solnit

#9. A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

E.B. White

#10. Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

Ann Patchett

#11. The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

E.B. White

#12. Giacometti knows that space is a cancer on being, and eats everything; to sculpt, for him, is to take the fat off space, he compresses space, so as to drain off its exteriority.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy ...

Isabel Allende

#14. What you imagine as overwhelming or terrifying while at leisure becomes something you can cope with when you must-there is no time for fear.

Rebecca Solnit

#15. I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#16. I am here, and he is here, and everything I need to know is that I will hold him and he will hold me until I am warm again, until I know I belong. (Your Temporary Santa)

David Levithan

#17. No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

L. Ron Hubbard

#18. Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Kevin Nealon