Squash Quotes - Page 2

• Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

  Charles Lamb

  Sports, War, Games

  Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.45

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• Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Sports, War, Shooting

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• It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Children, Men

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• I always go to the lowest common denominator for that ingredient. So if I think squash, I try to think what it means to me -- and if it doesn't mean anything to me, I'm not gonna do well when I cook it. So [squash] means to me: fall, maple syrup, cinnamon, and things just come into your head so you can narrow the vortex and make it a bit smaller and you go with something because there's no time.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fall, Mean, Thinking

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• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Country, Two

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• It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

  Joseph Priestley

  Communication, Use, Tone

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• People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

  Jimmy Connors

  War, People, Tennis

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• Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Passion, Riders

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

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• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

  Pericles

  Beautiful, Mind, Doe

  Funeral Oration, Athens, 430 B.C., in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.40, 1 (translation by Rex Warner)

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• On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

  Andrew Young

  Luxury, Bed, Kingdoms

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• I used to think that animation was about moving stuff. In order to make it really great, you bounce it, squash it, stretch it, make the eyes go big. But, as time went on, I started loving animating a character who had a kind of burning passion in her heart. Suddenly, animation became for me not so much about moving stuff as it was about moving the audience.

  Glen Keane

  Moving, Passion, Heart

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• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Real, Eggplant, Backyards

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• There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

  Peter Criss

  Sports, Long, Used

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• Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

  Joe Kraus

  Fighting, Innovation, Piracy

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• I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tennis, Enemy

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• What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Sports, Team, Imagination

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• I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

  Renny Harlin

  Silly, Cutting, Simple

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• Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities, Monsters

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• The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).

  Charles Heiser

  Flower, Vegetables, Roots

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• If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

  Vusi Mahlasela

  Blow, Wind, Words Of Wisdom

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• There is no accountability in soft money. None.

  Zach Wamp

  Money, Accountability

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• Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

  Charles Schumer

  Political, Way, Holes

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• Big government squashes the human spirit

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Spirit, Bigs

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• I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Guy, Shy, Tough

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

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• You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

  Talib Kweli

  Humble, Arrogant, Knows

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