Squash Quotes - Page 4

• I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Lucky, Firsts

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

  Tim Winton

  Green, Tongue, Ruins

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• When you're driving, the helmet squashes your hair, so you don't really have a hairstyle. When you get out, you're sweating and your hair is a mess.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Hair, Driving, Mess

  Source: www.manforhimself.com

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• Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables. But those vegetables were not brought here, like corn mushrooms, huitlacoche, or squash blossoms.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Believe, Vegetables, Mushrooms

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the strange and downright impossible ones. Use ancient words. Hold on to the gangly, silly, slippy, truthful, dangerous, out-of-fashion ones.

  Kyo Maclear

  Fashion, Silly, Swings

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• Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World, Bugs, Professors

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• I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Men, Games, Differences

  Kikizo Interview, archive.videogamesdaily.com. April 2, 2009.

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• You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

  Sergei Bubka

  Sports, Needs, Six

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• No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

  Tom Watson

  Sports, Golf, Games

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• Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.

  David Horowitz

  Character, Names, Views

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• I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

  Ariel Pink

  Song, Hate, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

  Ray Floyd

  Golf, Attention, Littles

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• 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

  Stories, Magazines, Want

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• 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

  Brother, Bottom Of The Barrel, Shadow

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• For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1784). “The Beauties of Shakespeare ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Revised and Enlarged”, p.305

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• Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

  Elvis Stojko

  Sports, Skating, Done

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• Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

  Agnes Smedley

  Sports, Gambling, Months

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• They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sports, Youth, Kind

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

  Alain Prost

  Sports, Drivers, South

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

  John Leguizamo

  Children, Kids, Trying

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

  Arlen Specter

  Winning, Definitions, Lost

  "Former Senator Arlen Specter Dies At 82". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 15, 2012.

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• Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Broken Spirit, Broken Promises

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• Toby smiled and started to speak, but Josh adjusted his hold on Tank and reached back, covering Toby's mouth. "Wait," Grace said. "I think he was going to actually use words." "Yeah, but trust me, you don't want to hear them." Toby pulled Josh's hand away. "Are you my new mommy?" Grace's mouth fell open in shock, and Toby giggled at the sight. "Okay, Tiger," Josh said. "You know I love the sound of your laugh, probably more than any sound in the world, but I will squash you like a grape if you say that to one more woman today.

  Jill Shalvis

  Thinking, Sight, Hands

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• Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

  Bill Toomey

  Sports, Creative, Activity

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