Squashy Quotes & Sayings

I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players. — Charles Haley

Failure is not fatal nor that you are finished but the result of unfinished product waiting to be reproduced, reprocessed and polished. Failure is that you have learned your omissions, mistakes or what you did not do right or well at the last attempt. You can transform failure into a fortune by dealing with what went wrong. Failure is only a product of uncorrected mistakes. — Ikechukwu Joseph

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one. — Howard Hodgkin

Nobody wants to phone me,
Even collect. — Cole Porter

He was clad in stylish pale linen and had a squashy packet of Gallic fags jutting from his breast pocket. — Barbara Trapido

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay. — Hari Kunzru

That's just stupid," said Chuck. "Have a look around at the rest of the animal kingdom lately? I'll have sex with anyone who doesn't try to kill me."
"And even then, as long as their butt smells good, I'm in," said Johnny Depp. — Merrill Markoe

...one of those people who, if you say 'don't look now', would immediately swivel his head like an owl on a turntable. These are the same people who, when you point out, say, an unusual crocus just beside them, turn round aimlessly and put their foot down with a sad little squashy noise. If they were lost in a trackless desert you could find them by putting down, somewhere on the sand, something small and fragile like a valuable old mug that had been in your family for generations, and then hurrying back as soon as you heard the crash. — Terry Pratchett

Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person
a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences
a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known. — Sue Monk Kidd

You may be the only Bible some people ever read. So the question is: Are you a good translation? — Mark Batterson

So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together. — Ansel Elgort

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies. — Bryan Fuller

The squashy earth-colored sofas, the tall cups of American froth, the wholesome young people working with quiet efficiency — Robert Galbraith

You wouldn't think it would be Toby
she was so tough and hard
but if you're drowning, a soft squashy thing is no good to hold on to. You need something more solid. — Margaret Atwood

You're not fifteen any more. You're not the idealistic kid who thought that, deep down, somewhere, somehow, in some way, life had to be fair.
- Callum McGregor — Malorie Blackman

You listen to the street traders any morning. They don't shout, 'Nearly-fresh oranges, only slightly squashy, reasonable value,' do they? No, they shout, 'Git chore orinjes, they're luvverly.' Good business sense." He — Terry Pratchett

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. — Samuel Butler

Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America! — Herman Cain