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Quotes About Squashed

I knew that the swallower was just a little knot of matter, squashed so tight that even its own light couldn't break free of it, and I knew it didn't have a mind or a will or anything you could think of as an appetite.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Principles describe rights; policies describe goals. But rights are trumps. They have a 'threshold weight' against community goals. They should not be squashed by a competing community goal.
~ Raymond Wacks
he told the president of the company that he damned near—and I quote, 'Squashed a cock,' that morning, and he'd been so happy to see that thing 'popping up and bobbing down the road.
~ Amy Lane
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
~ Adam Hochschild
All squashed!
~ Eleanor Estes
Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed.
~ Arundhati Roy
Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency
~ P.S. Martinez
There is a subway; it's like an illuminated coffin on skis — under the ground and musty, and one is squashed. That is what I ride on. It's interesting and it travels fast.
~ Unknown
...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
~ H. G. Wells