Quotes of: Presses Keyword

In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve Carell. And I ended up getting to work with both of them.

Mason Cook

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

Mark Haddon

A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in Bioy Casares’s ...

Spoken Image: Photography and Language

Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer an...

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said. Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But o...

The Lacuna

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all.

The Dead-Tossed Waves

The Decision ...I wiped my hands on my pinafore now sullied and stained not crisp or pressed as it had been before...

Enigmatic Evolution

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

The Haunting of Hill House

I’m an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.

Awoken

A brick could be used for pressing grapes into wine, and a magician could then cover up that wine with a blanket and turn wine into water.


Brick and Blanket

In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the sc...

Kenneth R. Miller

I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me... I...

Rachel Lambert Mellon

For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.

S.

The climber, like a fox which is hard-pressed, should always have one more trick in his bag.

The Night Climbers Of Cambridge

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

Life Capsules

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Max Lerner

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

Paul Haggis