Pressed Quotations

Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.

I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

I played a lot of acetates at the end of my vinyl period - I used to make tracks and get them pressed in four or five days - but the quality was always so bad and they would skip all the time. The vinyl days for me are over. I still buy vinyl, but only albums, and just to play. For DJing, vinyl is a nightmare.

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

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 science of life.

I was on tour with Little Dragon with the Gorillaz. She's got an amazing voice and is a lovely girl. Her vibe is fresh pressed and harmless fun with a tinge of the dark side if you look in the right bits of the tunes.

It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there - as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

What a great performance. We got a brilliant start. In the second half we pressed them and they didn't like it. We got our reward in the end.

We felt like if we pressed them a little bit, they'd turn the ball over, and they did.

We did it. We pressed them all the time, we created chances. The only thing we could be disappointed about is that we didn't score more than one goal.

We decided that it was now or never. We haven't pressed much all year long. We just didn't have the passion and we had to do something to get the game going up and down a little bit.

We tried so hard to make use of the advantage that we had with the wind, that maybe we pressed too hard. East Noble just kept trying to get the ball out and they stayed wide and distributed the ball well in the first half.

We didn't take very good care of the ball. They came out and pressed us and we aren't good enough to waste passes like we did tonight.

The outgoing Senate has lost credibility and public trust over the past few years. The incoming senators will be hard pressed to cultivate a semblance of legitimacy given the ongoing crisis.

We have institutions that work, we have pressed ahead with enlargement which will take place on May 1, ... There is no drama or crisis with a capital 'C'.

We're hard pressed for labor more than for warehouse space. But we're going to be hard pressed for warehouse space.

This provides yet more evidence that speed cameras are being used as a stealth tax to raise money from hard pressed motorists at a time of soaring fuel prices.

On any Saturday morning trip out of the house one would be hard pressed not to have noticed rapidly rising home prices, the spike in gasoline costs, and less enticing financing for vehicles.

She had most of the original pressed metal ceiling tiles.

Monday's going to be a lot different story, ... Kim's not going to let me do that so easily and will get more balls back and will really press me a lot more than I've pressed so far.

Obviously, Jobs has had the last laugh -- as some 22 million units sold altogether will attest. And now comes a product, the 1.5-ounce iPod Nano, that's so smartly conceived and well-engineered, the skeptics are hard pressed to find anything to complain about. Sure, consumers will have to pay $50 more to get the same song capacity as with the now-discontinued iPod Mini line. But get one of these gizmos in your hand, and such complaints will fade.

Nigel looked at her with sparkling eyes. The soul which shone through her dark face had transformed it for the moment into a beauty, more lofty and more rare than that of her shallow sister. He bowed before the majesty of the woman, and pressed his lips to her hand.

Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never let her go again. He could never let her head go away from the close clutch of his arm. He wanted to remain like that for ever, with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him.

I would be very hard pressed to think of a good historical analogy. I don't think there is one.

If we pressed them, we were losing this game.

If the rules are too demanding, they're going to be hard pressed to find a place to operate other than a desert. When you build a military base, somebody is going to lose their land, somebody is going to object because of noise. But if everybody gets a veto then you're not going to have any new military bases anywhere.

I don't believe they ever got all the documents, but then again I don't think that they pressed properly to get all of the documents,

I'd be painting sometimes, and get the strangest feeling I was being watched. I'd look up and see faces pressed against the window or door screens. Then, when I noticed them, the people would want to come in and talk to me. Got very upset, too, when I was too busy. One time I remember a man drove his car clear across our lawn and parked it right in the middle of the grass. It was wild.

I have listened to the advice from people who are better than me while I've been here, people like Heather Schreiber. She was my mentor, and pushed me and pressed me with advice and through example.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

I finished what I was writing, pressed 'send' and thought, 'Koufax didn't pitch on Yom Kippur,' ... And I haven't worked on Yom Kippur since.

I can't forecast where our stock will be, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you any hole we have in our assets. It's about execution now.

I don?t think we have been pressed two or three times all year. When people press us, we tend to score a lot of points. We?re very quick.

If the government denies him bail, it will reinforce the perception that it has pressed capital charges against him to prevent him from campaigning for president.

If someone was really pressed to put something on the line, was this a catch or not, we'd all probably have said it's inconclusive at best.

He works his tail off. His work ethic is one of the best in the game and he's always trying to improve his game. He just cares so much and maybe that's why he got into a funk last year. He pressed so hard.

Here's a bad luck story for you. On the day the tickets went on sale I had 10 tickets for the Friday and another 10 for the Monday of the final Test selected in the form on my computer screen all ready to be paid for. I then entered my credit card details pressed send - and The Oval's website crashed. I spent the next few hours trying to get back in to the site to no avail. When I finally got in the tickets had all gone - bah!

Hmmm, that's a tough one. You'd be hard pressed to say.

He was so far ahead of his time as far as basketball was concerned, ... We pressed and played different zones and did things that weren't commonplace back then. And, as a result, we were able to compete with the big schools in the Rochester area.

He wants to play. The FAMU game was one where he pressed and probably didn't need to play in. He could go out there and play now. But he realizes if he hurts it worse, it's going to be a longer process than just a couple weeks to let the muscle heal.

Having a home, husband, and child ought to be enough for any woman's life. I mean, that's what we are meant for, isn't it? But still I think every day is a lost day. As if only half of me is alive. The other half is pressed down in a bag and suffocated.

Kenny Rogers is the staff ace but he'll be hard pressed to match his 13 wins from last year while serving as the Twins' fifth starter.

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed

(Jones) has done primarily punt returns, but if pressed into service we'll trust that he'll do the job if he's the guy we choose to go with. He (Pittman) has worked on that throughout his career. Once again, when certain things happen you have to have contingency plans in place. We'll work on our contigency plan throughout this week and we'll find somebody who gives us a chance to hopefully return one for a touchdown.

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

I think where we failed ... was in not being aggressive before the storm. We knew there would be widespread flooding, but somehow we got complacent in that we never pressed our city leaders as to what their plans were. We later came to find out that they had no plans.

I thought we could battle our way back into it, but I think we pressed a little bit. We didn't care of the ball and we didn't box out and rebound very well. If you don't do that against them, you're going to get beat.

I think we pressed a little bit and we were a little anxious. I kept telling them if they stay relaxed, stay focused and keep pushing, good things will happen.

I think we could have give them a 40-something to 30-something match. It would be hard pressed for us to win this match.

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

It is illogical for the victim to be pressed to recognize its murderer and occupier. What is required is a fundamental change in the Israeli position.

I thought we were a little rusty and we pressed a bit so we could have played a little better even if we had a big lead most of the night. It was a tough game to get up for because (St. Bernard) is a young team and what happened with us on Friday night.

Over the last 30 days we have pressed the insurgents hard -- ruthlessly.

Our ball pressure was key in this game. We pressed them the whole game.

Recognize the rough spot. Once we try to ignore it, it keeps coming back. Address it and say 'OK, so how would I feel if I pressed through and did this?' Don't say 'I'm going to make myself do this' - then it just becomes like torture. Have a mind, body, soul conversation at the plateau to check in with yourself and see how you're feeling. Then you'll generally be ready to move forward.

Stephen was pressed into duty last season and did a nice job. He is driven to succeed and works hard to improve. Last year's experience will come in handy for him.

Some of them are so strong that the U.S. would be very hard pressed to reject these cases.

It doesn't change for us. Our backs are pressed firmly against the wall.

We never really got into our offensive rhythm. All season we've relied on our play in the paint, and they just pressed us outside a lot.

We never pressed them much before. But we went with that in the second half and they maybe made some passes they don't normally make.

Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.

We were a bit rushed and we didn't gain control of the ball. Arsenal pressed hard and when by losing the ball we lost the offensive capacity we needed to get a goal.

We do what we do best. We pressed and wore 'em down and started pounding the ball inside.

We played kind of lackadaisical and we were not mentally in the game like we should have been. We shot the ball real well. But they pressed us and that gave us some trouble.

We ended up with an effective sentence of 5 1/2 years, so that's pretty close. I would be hard pressed to be upset over a question of six months.

We really started to panic once they pressed us. It was really a tale of two halves. We played pretty well during the first half. But once they put that trap on us, we committed a lot of turnovers, and that frustrated our guys.

We got down and maybe pressed a little bit. It kind of snowballed from there.

We couldn't make a bucket when we needed a bucket. We pressed them and they turned the ball over which is exactly what we wanted. In the last quarter, we couldn't scored when we needed to. I'm really disappointed in how we played.

We played very hard defense all game. I think we just wore them down. We pressed the entire game and I think they just got tired.

We could land a 747 at our airport . but he may be hard pressed to leave.

We came out not shooting the ball very well and they capitalized. Before the fourth, we rallied together. We pressed and played with tons of energy.

We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed

We haven't pressed in a couple of weeks. We're not a great defensive team, but we get after it. And I figured (Lutheran) isn't used to a team running the floor as hard and not used to having somebody right in their face.

Waubay is the only team we never full-court pressed this year. Otherwise, we get teams to have 25 to 30 turnovers.

We pressed them, forced some turnovers and got big momentum on our side. We looked dead in the water, but the momentum switched and we carried it through.

We pressed them and stepped up a lot higher. St. Louis struggled to put their combinations together. Going into this game, I didn't think we were a good pressing team, but the guys showed me a lot of character. I learned something about our team more than anything that we can be a team that steps up and denies a lot of space for the opponent to play. In hindsight, had we put two halves together like the second half, we may have gotten the win.

We pressed on the president the importance of getting justice for Robert, and he said he's 100 percent behind our campaign.

We pressed hard on defense and worked on stealing balls,

We pressed and were able to create some turnovers and from there, they had to start fouling.

The defensive (side) was phenomenal by both teams. It was a game played in mud. I just told the guys I thought they fought for the most part. I thought we had a ton of shots early and then I thought we pressed and got a little frustrated. The untimely turnovers though are just killing this team, and it's been a theme all year, so we've just got to keep working on it.

We understand the gang element here has automatic weapons, but we're ready for that. And these New Orleans police have been pressed to the wall. They need and deserve support.

We knew we had to come out and play with more passion in the second half. Omro had a great game plan against us in the first half and we had to come back and answer that. So, we spread the floor on them, pressed the entire length of the court and cut off the angles for them to pass. It seemed to work very well.

We picked them up full-court and pressed because we didn't want them to start stalling on us. In the past, teams have tried to hold the ball against us. We didn't want that to happen tonight, so we forced a few turnovers and started to run a little bit.

When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when I went to college. I just had a panic button in my dorm room, so if I pressed that, they'd be there within 2 or 3 minutes.

Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason to start now.

Toby embodies the hard-working character of our truck customers. We would be hard pressed to find a more appropriate personality to help us reach our audience.

The Petaluma Health Care District would have been sorely pressed to match what St. Joseph has done for the hospital during the past nine years.

Both teams played zone pretty much for the whole game. They pressed us full court on and off, and we pressed them zone throughout. It was a very intense game, but the key was our rebounding, and we only had 11 turnovers against pressure.

We were down two starters. They pressed us really hard the whole game.

While this is unfortunate and something we did not want to do, in order to stabilize the sewer utility this increase is necessary. This administration needs to stabilize the sewer utility rate so if we are pressed with an emergency we do not have to go back to the taxpayers for a further increase.

There is no sound for a moment, no breathing. And then a muffled scream, like she has pressed something to her mouth.

We weren't pressed for time. You could start and finish when you want. You can work when you want. It's excellent. You're your own boss.

We have to come up with a person to fill the unexpired term, which will end on June 1. We are pressed to get a majority party member and need to have a special meeting.

We're very fortunate to have Eli. We've pressed on through some difficult times his rookie year into this season. He's improved and gotten better as we've gone along here. We've gotten him great experience; experience under fire, obviously, and some very, very big games. And he's performed well.