Squeezed Quotations

I'll exercise in spurts, usually inspired by a dress that I have to fit into. But once that gown is squeezed into, if I continue to exercise, I get sick or I pull my back. For some reason my body literally rejects exercise.

I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.

When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.

She (Brenneman) had a better game against Lyman Hall the other day. She felt a little squeezed at the plate but that happens and she has to adjust to that and make the transition.

Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.

No one should be fooled into believing that the slight improvement relative to July indicates a change in trend. Any growth came from heavy discounting, which is not sustainable - especially as retailers' margins are already being squeezed by rising labour, property and energy costs. The underlying position is still weak and unlikely to improve unless and until there are further cuts in interest rates.

People waiting for rates to fall have been squeezed out of the market. We're not going to see housing sales plummet, but we will see sales moderate.

I came up the hill on the restart, and all I could see was smoke and cars spinning into the wall, so I just squeezed as far left as fast as I could, and fortunately I missed the whole thing. It was just like Days of Thunder!

If any retailers are feeling pressured or squeezed in any way, we want to know about that. We will act upon it.

It appears that Rutgers now is the team to beat. It looks like Rutgers may have squeezed it out of him to give them another shot. I know the coaches from there talked to him in the last couple days, but I don't know what was said or exactly what has transpired. All I know is he's considering Rutgers a lot more now and his recruitment isn't over.

I think they have a limited amount of room to raise prices and fees. There's only so much they can do before people are squeezed out or go elsewhere.

It is bad news for renters. These people are being squeezed out of the marketplace.

I think there's a risk we're going through a period that profits will get squeezed relative to expectations. If economy slows dramatically, there could be real downside risk to numbers. But having said that, if we have a soft landing (for economic growth) and fuel prices coming down just a bit, then things could actually improve.

Jamie was great. Was Schilling great, too? I never credit pitchers. I make my living off pitchers. But Jamie was great, and he got squeezed a lot, too.

Our first intent was to squeeze the blood out of our local turnip. That was the general game plan for everybody. But it's come to the point where we've squeezed that turnip as much as we can.

Retailers are really getting squeezed especially in the largest retail sector, which is the supermarket sector. In the discount sector, Sears and Kmart would be at significant risk.

Physicians are feeling really squeezed financially these days and that is having a direct impact on what they feel they can afford to do.

People moved to take profits now as they don't want to be squeezed during a holiday.

Someone is going to subsidize the home ... and it is going to be the market-rate home buyer. Middle-income families are effectively squeezed out.

Massachusetts consumers are being squeezed out of the concert so Schwarzenegger can raise millions of dollars to push his big-industry donors' agenda in California.

It doesn't surprise me that Alan Lacy was squeezed down due to the questionable performance of Sears over the years.

I thought it was a good day, but we'd hoped for a better day. From my vantage point, I think the story wasn't that we got squeezed out by the real high profile teams, but the questions revolve around teams that look like us.

I thought I was getting squeezed a little bit. I wanted to lose control, but I just kept my composure. I'd just turn around and slap my thigh.

Theater owners are scrambling to get the Best Picture nominees or the big stars. If your film only gets a supporting actor or actress nomination, you can get squeezed out.

Wildlife in this state are already being squeezed by a variety of new oil and gas projects, and new habitats simply aren't appearing out of thin air to make up for the accelerating rate of habitat loss.

We estimate that 1.8 million barrels per day of consumption must be squeezed out next year through the impacts of higher prices.

We have squeezed providers and we have made savings and we have kept the system basically functioning for 30-some years.

We have to maintain the water flow downstream, and we have to maintain the lake elevation. When you pull out the amount that went for agriculture, we feel that we'd be able to do that. Unfortunately, the farmers are squeezed in the middle.

Typically, the big computer-animated films are spaced out four or five months apart. It is very odd that so many of these are squeezed together.

We have not done a great job of using 53 yards, the width of the field. I think what we've done is kind of squeezed it down because that's how we beat Tennessee play great defense, play great field position.

We are not cutting health care services to the beneficiaries. We have squeezed some fraud out. We have squeezed providers.

We have lots of homes for upper income people, but the middle class is being squeezed stagnant wages and the cost of homes rising so fast -- 8 percent, 9 percent a year.

The data indicate that firms continue to struggle to pass higher costs through to consumers, with profit margins being squeezed as a result.

Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice.

We had a couple of times when our guys could have squeezed off shots when they chose not to. We've got to work our way out of this and gain our confidence back.

This seems to be the direction the city's taking. Watching it get wiped out like it's a bad disease is very disheartening. It's not just the club scene, it's also the arts scene that's being squeezed out by this rampant, merciless rent situation.

We went in and we squeezed on that excessive margin.

Bottom line, this year was obviously a disappointment, ... Duplication and inefficiencies inevitably worked their way into our operations and I am working to make sure they are squeezed back out again.

As the industry is squeezed from all sides, something's got to give.

Consumers will be squeezed with higher interest rates, which is not good news for the market generally.

Early on, you sold everything. As the big boxes came in, it really squeezed us, all of us independents. We transitioned out of machines and began selling furniture. Now, our niche is narrowing. So far, we've managed to succeed.

I squeezed my legs together and I could feel the puck there, but my momentum took me back into the net. I tried to pop it out, but I guess I crossed the line with my knees.

I squeezed his hand in the ambulance and he opened his eyes and said he had a terrible headache and then he passed out again.

The tightened monetary policy has squeezed the credit flow to the private sector.

Something that could have squeezed supply a bit tighter would be a sustained cold snap and there just hasn't been the cold weather in the U.S. yet to test out just how well the market can supply.

Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

As housing prices and apartment rents rise, we see many families squeezed to find adequate homes.

You replace an icon like Greenspan, in whom the markets had a lot of confidence, and risk premiums have been squeezed to very low levels, and inevitably there is going to be a rise in uncertainty.

This apparently agitated him to the point where he squeezed off a couple of rounds.

They might have a point if they were being squeezed into small areas, but they're not. They still have more than 100 square miles.

This market is massively undervalued, prompting utilities to burn more coal and creating further demand for allowances. Every day that this situation persists, there is increased pressure for the market to be squeezed upwards.

They're getting squeezed in the region with the two goliaths coming at them from all directions.

They're not prepared to handle this kind of volume, and they got squeezed out by the big guys.

It's also good for the guys like me because now somebody has a little extra money and they can go after a veteran who might have gotten squeezed out in this. I'm sure the veteran minimum is going to go up, so guys like me can go out and get a one-year somewhere and feel good about the situation they are going into.

That's quite a luxury compared to the days when I was doing research with two people squeezed into one fume hood.

Eight out of 10 Italian whites are like mineral water with lemon juice squeezed in it.

Supposedly a corporate order went through the market this morning. It squeezed a couple of guys who were sitting short dollars and triggered a few stops and the rand popped up to the top (weakened).

It'll be a true test of how much we really love each other, squeezed into a van and driving for 6-8 hours a day, 12 days straight. From there, we plan on taking over the world.

It's hard to be enthusiastic about the consumer goods sector in Europe, which is being squeezed by global competition and flagging consumer demand.

It underscores how much profits have been squeezed and helps explain why business investment is weakening as much as it is in the second quarter.

It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

They would have been pretty well insulated, but they were doing what we should complement them for doing - exploring. They had seen the future. They have to go out of region. They have to expand. Otherwise, they're going to have this niche market that eventually is going to get squeezed by outside forces. Voiceover IP or something else is going to come and eat their lunch. So they took a pre-emptive strike that bit them in the butt the first time.

Once the adrenaline kicked in, I kind of forgot about it until I hurt it again. When it hurt, I crunched my teeth together and squeezed all my strength together. I couldn't stop.

The middle is getting squeezed out. People are moving up or down.

The consumer will be feeling a little bit squeezed in 2006.

If you have had the same dishwasher for 10 years or more, don't bother repairing it. The average dishwasher is expected to last nine years, and you've most likely squeezed as much life out of it as you can.

If you look at what was happening 18 months ago, those unwanted messages came into the marketplace through public gateways and appeared to originate off shore. Since then, they have been squeezed out of the marketplace with the carriers chopping them off at the gateway.

I just found an extra inch and squeezed in.

In the abstract, it's a good idea that students know more about the Constitution. Civics has been squeezed out of the curriculum.

It has squeezed us unbelievably. If for some reason the NCAA rule doesn't pass at 28 or 28 games, it will be real interesting.

Him being squeezed would be an accurate description.

He's shown that kind of acceleration before, but it looked so spectacular because he was squeezed coming out of the gate and had to make up so much ground.

He started coming toward me with something like a metal rod or something in his hand. I sort of somehow squeezed the trigger off and shot him.

I asked the guys, 'What should I do?' They told me to just score. He closed the pads pretty quick, but somehow it just squeezed in.

I could have squeezed there, but I had two left-handed hitters up, so it was a tough call.

He pointed out that Staten Island isn't where our base was. It's also a fact that we're campaigning in Staten Island fairly frequently, and that Freddy worries voters there are being financially squeezed by Mike Bloomberg's policies.

He pointed out that Staten Island isn't where our base was, ... It's also a fact that we're campaigning in Staten Island fairly frequently, and that Freddy worries voters there are being financially squeezed by Mike Bloomberg's policies.

You can say CAFTA went through, but what it revealed is that free trade is on life support, ... It barely squeezed through Congress and doesn't bode well for future deals.

A lemon squeezed too hard will only yield a bitter juice. There has to be a line drawn somewhere. It is when the body starts wearing off when people will start thinking about these things.

The heart of the tape is a convicted felon saying he is going to roll over one more time and a federal employee saying to her husband, 'I'm being squeezed by the White House.' That's the heart of these tapes,

The impact we see is not just with new hires, but with faculty who've been here a couple of years. They've rented and now they want to buy. They are feeling squeezed out of the market.

Although employment levels remain high, particularly here in Florida, consumers are being squeezed by high energy prices and high levels of debt. Consumers are certainly beginning to curtail their spending in reaction to the rise in gasoline.

You've got dealers hesitant to order 05's until they move the 04's; the 05's are being squeezed out,

The market is consolidating and they're getting squeezed in the middle.

On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.