Mr Compress Quotes

#1. My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

Leigh Newman

#2. Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.

Julia Glass

#3. Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

Samuel Beckett

#4. Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with.

Anthony Bourdain

#5. I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

Robert Sikoryak

#6. I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by tapping a bowl with a fork. I'm trying to compress all of my experiences all of the time.

Lotic

#7. Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#9. That, which others compress - will widen up and open. That, which others weaken - will strengthen. That, which others destroy - will blossom. Whoever wished to take something from the other, will inevitably loose his own.

Laozi

#10. I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

Tom Perrotta

#11. Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

Sarah Brightman

#12. The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

Sai Baba

#13. The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#14. I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Harlan Howard

#15. What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

Jane Rogers

#16. That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Paul Greengrass

#17. Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

Robert Todd Carroll

#18. I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.

Mahesh Babu

#19. There's nothing so bad in the world that dog kisses won't make it better

Lynn Plourde

#20. I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

Kevin Wilson

#21. I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Vikram Rohit Shetty

#22. There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Art Spiegelman

#23. With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had to compress that I thought it would have been really nice to spend more time with - to spend with the characters.

Cary Fukunaga

#24. Some people compress compassion and call it love others, compress love and call it loneliness

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#25. I can always tell when a girl comes from a good family because she's what's known as not at all attracted to me.

Dov Davidoff

#26. Women could compress a great deal into one look.

Robert Jordan

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#28. Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

Ariel Durant

#29. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

Swami Vivekananda

#30. the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world, one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created. (Of course, there would be no one left to observe it!)

Stephen Hawking

#31. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln

#32. You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.

David Leitch

#33. What make you think that if you can't finish a project in 18 months, you will be able to do that 18 months later?

Steve Jobs

#34. Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Curtis Joseph

#35. Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

Sally Hawkins

#36. Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

Bill Henson

#37. What would Jeeves do that for?"
"It struck me as rummy, too." ...
"I mean to say, it's nothing to Jeeves what sort of a face you have!"
"No!" said Cyril. He spoke a little coldly, I fancied. I don't know why. "Well, I'll be popping. Toodle-oo!

P.G. Wodehouse