Cranking Compression Quotes & Sayings

The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a dark, old spirit that didn't so much mark time as bequeath it. — Tod Wodicka

He couldn't look back at the children. He couldn't think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his wife.
He pulled her to him, her body soft, her skin warm. She was life, she was his. He took her lips and tasted his freedom once more. The subtle tenderness. The hope hidden in joined breath. He took it into himself. Soaking in the peace that came with it.
And even as the rustling began he felt still, he felt calm. Scratching and scrapping within the stones, and the rustle of wings. But all Eli knew was the nature of love. — Rachel A. Marks

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together. — Pat Robertson

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers. — Dennis Quaid

When an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior. But the scope of the verb to be must be understood; bad faith means giving it a substantive value, when in fact it has the sense of the Hegelian dynamic: to be is to have become, to have been made as one manifests oneself. Yes, women in general are today inferior to men; that is, their situation provides them with fewer possibilities: the question is whether this state of affairs must be perpetuated. — Simone De Beauvoir

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance. — Daniel Radcliffe

People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama. — Barbara Demick

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing. — Shaquille O'Neal

Remember the Tenth Commandment: "Thou shalt not covert thy neighbors house, thou shalt not covert thy neighbors wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbor's." Clearly, the biggest loser (aside from slaves, perhaps) in the agricultural revolution was the human female, who went from occupying a central respected role in foraging societies to becoming another possession for a man to earn and defend, along with his house, slaves, and livestock. — Cacilda Jetha

Overloading the HPA axis, especially in infancy and childhood, produces all kinds of serious and long-lasting negative effects - physical, psychological, and neurological. — Paul Tough

Never argue with a fool, people might not notice the difference — Niq Mhlongo

Figure out who you are. — Randy Jackson

It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater. — Pablo Schreiber