Top 100 Tight Quotes
#1. I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 - it was tight, but I could get into it.
Marie Osmond
#2. Hush," I said. "I'm here, and I'm not letting you out of my sight anytime soon so keep holding me tight." I looked down, a little more than afraid of plummeting hundreds of feet down.- Breena to Kian, Silver Frost
Kailin Gow
#3. There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony.
Bill Gaither
#4. Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart.
Chris Galford
#5. A mix of human and lizard and who knows what else. White, tight reptilian skin smeared with gore, clawed hands and feet, their faces a mess of conflicting features.
Suzanne Collins
#6. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I cringe, realizing that it's probably pretty crappy to complain about your parents to someone who doesn't have any. It's like bitching that your shoes are too tight to someone who's walking across broken glass barefoot.
Katja Millay
#7. I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?
Drew Barrymore
#8. If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.'
'True.' Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you.
Christopher Pike
#9. Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.
Francis Chan
#10. I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.
Drake Bell
#11. The song ended, but I kept my arms wrapped tight around her, not letting her move an inch. If she was having some internal battle again, she could do so in my arms.
"Watcha doing, wifey?" I joked, secretly enjoying the sound of that.
Karina Halle
#12. I don't need a hero, Wes." I say again, pressing our foreheads tight again, my thumbs both drawing soft lines along his jaw. "I just need you.
Ginger Scott
#13. When I started skiing my pants were baggy and my cheeks were tight
Now my cheeks are baggy and my pants are tight.
Warren Miller
#14. Where's Jude?' I asked. Martin knelt to get something from his bass case, and then turned to me. His voice was strung tight, savage and bitter. 'He wanted me to give this to you.' He held up a silver case, condensation on the outside, and Jude within.
Maggie Stiefvater
#15. If she lets go, it's all over. If I let go, it's all over. And because she is holding on so tight, I hold on so tight.
David Levithan
#16. Voldimort wuz wearing a blak leather Jackson, blak tight jeans and fishnet pantz. He looked so sexah I almost had an orgy!!!!
Tara Gilesbie
#17. The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New England-tight-ass face that looks like she hasn's taken a shit since her family came over on the Mayflower.
Bart Yates
#19. All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.
Alice Cooper
#20. Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
Joe Biden
#21. Temperament can really take a toll on the voice. If you get tight in your body with the acting, then you can get tight in your voice. And then you can get tired, and you can damage yourself vocally.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#22. As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his cheeks. His whole body sagged. Before our very eyes, he became a beaten man.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#23. Tony flung himself into his brother's arms and felt them close round him tight. "Hold me so I can't get away!" he said, and found himself queerly rejoicing in the steely strength of those scarred wrists.
Constance Savery
#24. When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.
Michael Douglas
#25. I have a restaurant in Milan, and Paper Moon is five minutes away from my hotel, so I always go there for lunch. It's a casual place that serves good salad, pizza and pasta; the space is tight with tables close together, and it feels buzzy. Food comes out fast, too.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#26. Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
Stuart Dybek
#27. I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
Carmen Laforet
#28. Then human mind holds tight to those things it can't reconcile.
Beth Hoffman
#29. If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen
Mariah Carey
#31. When a woman tries on clothing from her closet that feels tight, she will assume she has gained weight. When a man tries something from his closet that feels tight, he will assume the clothing has shrunk.
Rita Rudner
#32. I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition.
Castiel
#33. Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm. And if I should kiss you in the dark, it's no big deal; it's only because you are my love.
Stephen King
#34. I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.
Maria V. Snyder
#35. I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
Lynda Barry
#36. Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.
Dev Patel
#37. It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.
Suzy Amis
#38. But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
Caroline B. Cooney
#39. I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
Ernest Hemingway,
#40. Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight
Niccolo Machiavelli
#41. You know what I wish for?" she said through a tight throat. "What I
really need? A man who loves me enough to stay.
Karina Bliss
#42. and let me remember that my courage is a wild dog; it won't just come when I call it, I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.
Ze Frank
#43. Excuse me," she said, her voice tight. "But if I'd known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it!
Tara Janzen
#44. If you're going to hold on tight to your life, better make sure it's exactly the way you want it
David Schlussel
#45. I knew he'd get left behind when the Rapture came due to his swearing and probably also for having long hair and tight pants.
Susan Juby
#46. One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
Ma Jun
#47. That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
Luke Bryan
#48. I would like to build a garden," she declared. "After all of this... I think the world needs more gardens."
My throat was too tight to immediately reply, so I just kissed my sister's cheek before I said, "Yes - I think it does.
Sarah J. Maas
#49. Moscow and Washington have evolved a delicate process for 'de-confliction' in the tight Syrian airspace, where accidents or miscommunication could be disastrous.
David Ignatius
#50. A third path that a business can follow - an offshoot of our two main strategies - is pursuing a highly targeted market and focusing its resources on serving that tight segment, whether through cost leadership or differentiation. This is the focus strategy.
Anonymous
#51. Come closer, and I will tell you.
But he forgot. He kissed her, and became lost in the exquisite sensation of his skin becoming too tight for his body. He murmured other things instead. A secret, a want, a promise. A story, in its own way.
Marie Rutkoski
#52. I held her tight, my hands coming up to wrap over her shoulders, wishing I could wrap myself around her heartache.
S.C. Stephens
#53. Ed held his sword tight in both hands and went slowly and carefully down. There was the unmistakable smell of sicko down here and Ed's throat was very dry.
Charlie Higson
#54. Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.
Kenneth Grahame
#55. I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.
Liv Tyler
#56. Helena, my love," she heard a deep voice whisper from behind. Helena gasped and held on tight to that breath. Jeans clutched to her chest, she turned slowly toward the voice. There was no one there. "It's official. I'm obsessed.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#57. She tried to teach her children to be positive
to dream but to also do it with their feet on the ground. If you let loose that balloon, you will lose sight of it, she said. The best way to enjoy it is to hold tight to the string and plant your feet on a good solid path.
Jill McCorkle
#58. The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.
Joel Edgerton
#59. It seem like everybody dress tight now,
And I just want my credit.
Kanye West
#60. I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter.
Larry Fitzgerald
#61. How the hell am I supposed to respect someone who sold herself to the highest bidder?" he growled with tight control, and she gasped, stung. "I have no respect for you, Theresa, not even as the potential mother of my child, because, quite frankly, you can't even do that right.
Natasha Anders
#62. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#63. Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.
Michael Burgess
#64. I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
Joaquin Phoenix
#65. We all need something to hold on to, belief, a strong and genuine one. Make it one you can trust. Make it yourself. Believe in yourself and hold on tight.
Aaron Millar
#66. You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.
Zooey Deschanel
#67. Beneath his hands, my skin is so light and tight I half imagine I'm transparent. I'm glass for him, all the way to my blood-red, shining heart.
Alexis Hall
#68. I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air. My muscles are clenched tight against the cold. If a pack of wild dogs were to
Suzanne Collins
#69. Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.
Sarah Dessen
#70. I'm used to holding on to nothing as tight as I can.
Amy A. Bartol
#71. Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.
Rabindranath Tagore
#72. Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.
Yasmin Mogahed
#73. A military man's courtship rites may not be poetic, but then, they're not cryptic, either. Even if he's bashful, when he fancies you, you know it, because you can't hide a lover's blush under the Army's signature high-and-tight haircut.
Lily Burana
#74. He gave her a slight, tight-lipped smile. The smile he typically gave people before he ate them alive.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#75. Ah, Christ. Do you know how fucking good you feel on me? So damn tight and soft, holding me in. I love the way you smell, the way you taste. I love the sounds you make. Fuck, baby, I love you.
Susan Fanetti
#76. No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.
Clark Gregg
#77. A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
#78. I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.
Diane Kruger
#79. The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).
Venita VanCaspel
#80. My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.
Wynton Marsalis
#81. Without the blues, you can't have the greens. Good, bad, or indifferent, you need all your levels to balance each other out if you want your track to sound tight.
Love Maia
#82. A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
Karen Traviss
#83. Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#84. She looked up at her father. "I am bound so tight by oaths that I feel like a fly in a spider's web. All I can do is use every resource I have before the spider strikes.
Gwynn White
#85. Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.
Sharon Gannon
#86. The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.
Bridgette Wilson
#87. Ride me. You're so tight and wet. I'm going to fill up that pretty little pussy and make it mine. In you. So that the whole god damn world knows you're mine.
Vi Keeland
#88. When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag.
Julie Powell
#89. Fuck, Caroline. Wrap your legs tight. I want to feel the pussy I just finished satisfying.
Anonymous
#90. So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
(Initiation)
Sylvia Plath
#91. Sometimes what we want lies behind a door our own actions have locked tight.
Natasha Knight
#92. The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she'd snap and crack the world in two.
Patrick Rothfuss
#93. The current fashions are impractical for an active person. Skirts so tight one must toddle like an infant, bodices boned so firmly it is impossible to draw a deep breath ... . And bustles! Of all the idiotic contrivances foisted upon helpless womankind, the bustle is certainly the worst.
Elizabeth Peters
#95. He shook his head and squeezed my hand tight. "You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered, "You are my heart
I am your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?"
Jamie
Diana Gabaldon
#96. Leo didn't laugh.
He also didn't cry. Which it looked for a minute like he might do. I knew that feeling. Hold your mouth tight, tell your heart not to hurt, tell your brain not to think about what might happen next.
Ally Condie
#97. The girl's face was as tight and mean as broccoli
Toni Morrison
#98. She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them-an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.
Anne Tyler
#99. Cricket's voice broke through Thomas's memory. He was reading a letter, most likely from his mother. He was trying hard to hide it, but he was tearing up.
"Captain I don't want to be here," was all he could choke out. Thomas reached over and gave Cricket's shoulder a tight squeeze.
Jessica Fortunato
#100. I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden. Bastard.
Bernard Cornwell