Top 64 Quotes About Squashed
#1. I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
Adam Hochschild
#2. The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny clouds like fish scales was illuminated.
Karen Foxlee
#3. I've been worried about you, she says when they're settled in the kitchen. She has the bright, inquisitive gaze of a crow with its eye on a freshly squashed chipmunk.
Stephen King
#4. Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.
Colin Cotterill
#5. Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.
Fannie Flagg
#6. Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was something he'd sworn never to do again. Not until all this was over.
James Dashner
#7. Who could resist the two of us all squashed into one beautiful person, right? He smiled.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#8. The Slave master named Mahmel Was a nasty kind of thug, so Stiggy dropped a rock on him and squashed him like a bug.
John Flanagan
#9. It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
Alison Elliott
#10. I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before ... but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are!
Marv Wolfman
#11. Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed.
Arundhati Roy
#12. Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.
Jonathan Stroud
#13. Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Ethel Merman
#14. Once you've been squashed by a giant, a troll doesn't even seem nearly as heavy.
Christopher Healy
#15. Love is like a picnic without ants, pleasant for a while, but sooner or later something's definitely getting squashed.
Frances Winkler
#16. I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
Iggy Pop
#17. I remember hearing that the spirit was always next to you, so I would always make room in my bed for the spirit ... I'd make room for the teddy bears, Jesus and me. And then I'd wake up in the morning, and I'd squashed 'em all.
Michael Fassbender
#18. Sometimes
when you are trying
not to think about something
it keeps popping back in your head
you can't help it
you think about it
and
think about it
and
think about it
until your brain
feels like
a squashed pea.
Sharon Creech
#19. But since printing came in no one wants illustrated works, they are happy with these cheap books with their ugly, square letters all squashed together.
C.J. Sansom
#20. Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
Wilfred Burchett
#21. Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.
Paul Ehrenfest
#22. Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!
Clint Eastwood
#23. Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
Noel Gallagher
#24. I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
Cameron Diaz
#25. It was better than Harry had expected. As for Dumbledore's writing to the Dursleys, that was nothing. Harry knew perfectly well they'd just be disappointed that the Whomping Willow hadn't squashed him flat.
J.K. Rowling
#26. And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?
I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then.
Neil Gaiman
#27. Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
Vera Farmiga
#28. Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency
P.S. Martinez
#29. I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am.
Rachel Vincent
#30. Instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
H.G.Wells
#31. Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.
Roland Barthes
#32. One of those was occupied by a dwarf. Clean-shaved and pink-cheeked, with a mop of chestnut hair, a heavy brow, and a squashed nose, he perched on a high stool with a wooden spoon in hand, contemplating a bowl of purplish gruel with red-rimmed eyes. Ugly little bastard, Tyrion thought. The
George R R Martin
#33. Principles describe rights; policies describe goals. But rights are trumps. They have a 'threshold weight' against community goals. They should not be squashed by a competing community goal.
Raymond Wacks
#34. Be thrown into a new life (or at least thrown with sush force against the life of someone who is like squashed his face against the window) forces you to rethink who you are. Or what causes impression for others
Jojo Moyes
#35. Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.
Tom Scholz
#36. He stepped on it. Squished it. Squashed it. Killed it. Cut it down in its prime. It kicked the bucket, turned up its toes, shuffled off this mortal coil. It was ... an ex-rabbit."
"He's a dangerous man, your father."
"The baby better learn to dodge.
Derek Landy
#37. Strength is more than crushing a creature beneath you until it is squashed. It is facing the dark truth even after the last shred of hope has died.
Tracy Ann Miller
#38. . . . a shrunken old man, squashed into the chair like a stubbed-out cigarette.
Pascal Garnier
#39. For these dances the boys send corsages, which I keep afterward and keep in my bureau drawer; squashed carnations and brown-edged rosebuds, wads of dead vegetation, like a collection of floral shrunken heads.
Margaret Atwood
#40. Face falling, her sister pushed a crumb around her plate. 'I feel dumb now. I shouldn't have called you - I know you must be sad and busy because of the Falling.' She squashed the crumb, staring at it as if it were the most important thing on the planet.
Nalini Singh
#41. I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.
Owen Hart
#42. our feet
are grape-squashed in memories
our skins are still flushed
from the touch
of summer's lips.
Sanober Khan
#43. I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.
Kiowa Gordon
#44. I think crush is the perfect word to describe it, too, because it simultaneously means 'to have a brief infatuation with someone unattainable' and 'to be violently squashed.
Elna Baker
#45. He followed her down the corridor. "Don't walk away from me. I'd like some answers here. Whose invitation did I just accept, and what does that slimy prig want of you? And why do I come in third in your affections behind the slimy prig and a squashed beetle?"
-Logan
Tessa Dare
#46. I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.
Beverly L. Kaye
#47. Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.
Cynthia Bond
#48. Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
Peter Diamandis
#49. People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.
Lauren Oliver
#50. Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.
Pam Brown
#51. God can't be squashed into any formula or confined to a narrow explanation, and he doesn't want our dreams to be small and manageable either. He is a God who blasts through all human boundaries.
Kasey Van Norman
#52. Better make sure you're not in my way when I go down." My eyebrow lifted as I dipped my head to his level. "You wouldn't want to get squashed.
J.A. Belfield
#53. Controlled Middle East oil, it would control the world. This oil represents 65 percent of world oil reserves. Therefore, America believes if it squashed Iraq, it would control the oil of the Middle East and consequently hold the oil in its hands [and] fix its price the way it likes.
Saddam Hussein
#55. The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.
David Anthony Durham
#56. Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.
David Tennant
#57. I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
Barry Humphries
#58. It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.
Jonathan Alter
#59. I'm going to let that slide because you seemed to have been in the middle of being eaten by a monster." He was clutching his midsection as if from pain, the squashed remnants of a soft brown cookie squeezing between his fingers as though dough from a pasta machine.
BMB Johnson
#60. One of the reasons Wall Street had cooked up this new industry called structured finance was that its old-fashioned business was every day less profitable. The profits in stockbroking, along with those in the more conventional sorts of bond broking, had been squashed by Internet competition.
Michael Lewis
#61. I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.
Ben Okri
#62. I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
(from Who's Who in Hell)
Jack London
#63. The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.
Fred Hoyle
#64. Some people can't fit the mould that's made for them ... They get squashed in. And it's hard for them to leave, but it's harder for them to stay. They have to find other ways to be.
C.J. Flood
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