Tight Spot Quotes

#1. A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

Craig Johnson

#2. Susanna, I'm not exactly sure how to begin. Where to start. I know I was in the wrong by not telling you sooner, but I was in an incredibly tight spot."
She crooked her brow.
"I'm still in an incredibly tight spot?"
She nodded.

Caroline Fyffe

#3. A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

Lefty Gomez

#4. You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. We're in a tight spot!

George Clooney

#6. The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Josh Billings

#7. Dodging a close call or tight spot felt like barely avoiding a horrible accident and winning the lottery all at the same time - and I felt surges of relief and exhilaration.

Charlie Spillers

#8. 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

#9. What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

Jimmy Buffett

#10. Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

James Rollins

#11. It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

Henri Barbusse

#12. Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if you plead "guilty" you'll be immediately extradited and U.N.S. law will take over."
"Not guilty."
"Also, it's not very nice to lie in court."
"But it beats extradition.

Howard Tayler

#13. One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

Conor Oberst

#14. Because every day in my journal I write down the best thing that's happened to me. And today it's you. When
When Johanna said that, I felt light, warm in that spot just above my stomach where it usually feels clenched and tight.

Gary Paulsen

#15. They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.

Howard Tayler

#16. Magic come out of me
When I write words to serenade you
Come don't be scared our hearts is meant to meet.

Chimnese Davids

#17. I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

William Devane

#18. He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way - hand frozen in the air.

Anne Ursu