Pressed Quotes

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There were two instances where the police were called for whatever reason to my old house and they sold the story, telling lies. The police were responding to phone calls that happened, but they were then coming out and creating an atmosphere, a drama, when actually nothing had happened; there were no charges pressed. But that`s the High Court and then the police selling stories, so how are you going to live in a country and feel safe?

- Jude Law

[Explaining his disillusionment with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he made his first films} Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool. ... I was encouraged to emulate Robert Taylor, who came to the studio every day of his life in a pinstripe suit and pressed shirt with a pin through the collar. They were very high on pins through the collar.

- Peter Lawford

Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.

- Eminem

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.

- Ingrid Bergman

I`m an easy target, especially nowadays. You`d be hard pressed to find many in the media or the music business who`ll own up to liking me and my music. Especially in the UK. Although I have met a lot of R&B singers in the States who are very kind about what I`ve done. Generally speaking though it`s just one of those things that cannot be reversed now. One has to be philosophical about it and try to move on.......that`s not easy for me, but I am trying !!! (Speaking in 2004)

- Phil Collins

(So it`s not a stretch for Flowers and his band mates to wear makeup and pressed suits.) It`s part of the show, ... Vegas is about the show.

- Brandon Flowers

"You ever walk behind someone walking so slow slow you have to hold yourself back from stabbing them? `...You better move it along, huh. My walker has wheels for a reason." You ever walk next to that stranger who wants to walk the same speed as you? `...Get the fuck away from me... what are we--on a date here? I don`t even know you.` Sometimes I find myself being a weirdo... you ever been walking next to some stranger and for no reason at all you decide that if you beat them to the corner, you`ll be a millionaire? They`re like, `whatever`. HAHA! I get to press the walk button for you! ... You think those walk buttons do anything? I think some guy at the government was like, `What can we give the morons to press? How bout a button!?` You always press `em, you`re like, `...maybe I didn`t press it hard enough...` Then someone will come up and be like, `Did you press it?` --`Yeah, I pressed it.` They`re like, `Why don`t you press it again?`--`You`re like, `Yeah I`ll press it again.` Then at that point it changes and you`re like, `I did that. I changed the traffic in the city... I have a lot of power.` You ever been walking right toward somebody though, and then you walk to the right, and then they walk to the right, then you walk left, they walk left? You know how there`s like that awkward moment? ...Just lean forward and kiss `em. `....looked like you wanted it from my angle.` Then when they`re walking away just hit `em on the ass. (Pshhh) `You`ll be back! You`ll be back for some of that loving.``

- Jim Gaffigan

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.

- Phil Harris

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.

- William Friedkin

I`m really shopping for a record deal, and I haven`t had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them.

- Ike Turner

I`m hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

- Paul Westerberg

Here's my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. That's why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, `Mmmmmm. Interesting.` If pressed, they'll add, `I'll have to get back to you on that.` Then they don't say anything else.

- Douglas Coupland

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.

- Larry Black

(GM and other auto makers also will be hard-pressed to make the $15,000-plus in per-vehicle profits they made back then.) We aren`t riding on these (new) vehicles to save the company, ... There are a number of other attractive alternatives in the market.

- Gary White

Asked at the hearing why she hadn`t pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn`t know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn`t her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

- Howard Fineman

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

- Aaron Rosenberg

If the waitress shows up and doesn`t have an exit line, that isn`t true to life - I`m hard pressed to think of a waitress who just walks away.

- Akio Morita

I`m really shopping for a record deal, and I haven`t had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them.

- Al Ramadan

I pressed my father`s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

- Alan Herbert

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

- Alan Weinstein

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

- Allan Keller

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

- Andy Boyd

After how well things went in Salt Lake, everybody really wanted to get (to the Olympics) badly. So it pressed everybody to really lift their level.

- Andy Fanter

Since we put up the lights (in 1988), we make an effort to have the new projects look as if they`ve always been here. Our goal is to have you sit in the seats in the regular grandstand and look out and see the seats filled with fans, you will be hard-pressed to notice the difference.

- Andy Melin

Another advertising campaign is going to do nothing for hard-pressed farmers.

- Arieh Sharon

The difference in the game was that we pressed in the second half.

- Armando Nava Jr

It was first the awful state of the land that was pressed upon me. I saw the blindness and infatuation of the people to be very great. I felt the cry of Liberty just to be the hiss of the serpent, to drown them in perdition. It was just no God.

- Ashley Wilson

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

- Coleman Cox