Quotes About Pressing

Work gets done on the basis of its urgency alone.

You can't press your suit and another fellow's trousers simultaneously.

After the first pressing sold out, the New Vista partners turned the masters over to the band. "They were very cool," says Rosas. "We paid them back, and that was it. We sold a lot of records off the back of our van. We sold it off the stage, and we had about ten record shops that were selling it for us. I think eventually we sold about eight thousand records. Little by little, year after year, we kept selling it.

P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise.

The problem of living a Christian life in a non-Christian society is pressing, since most of our social institutions are non-Christian and in pagan hands. The family remains the only trustworthy transmitter of Christian culture.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

to return to that shadowy time of preexistence, she thought, when there was nothing particularly pressing to do except the occasional somersault, no thoughts, just interesting sensations of light and sound, and no loneliness, because those other two versions of you, who had been there forever, were right there beside you, not going anywhere.

I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.

You've got two veins; one carries blood directly to the body, one carries blood to the heart. That tumor was growing and was pressing on that vein. That vein was getting skinnier and skinnier.

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.

Entrepreneurship is like a weighing machine whose load content should tilt towards passion to solve a pressing need, more than passion to make money.

Therapists delve into a mind rather than a brain, and we can see from the subtlest gesture or expression if we've hit a nerve. But unlike neurosurgeons, we gravitate toward the sensitive area, pressing delicately on it, even if it makes the patient feel uncomfortable.

Prayer is a heart exercise. It's an act of communicating with God about what's most important and pressing in your life.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

I played a lot of acetates at the end of my vinyl period - I used to make tracks and get them pressed in four or five days - but the quality was always so bad and they would skip all the time. The vinyl days for me are over. I still buy vinyl, but only albums, and just to play. For DJing, vinyl is a nightmare.

What Liverpool do really well is they try to get you inside but then close you down.

As the night wore on (phosphorescent in the streetlamps, violet city midnights that never quite faded to black) I turned from side to side, the low ceiling over the bunk pressing down on me so heavily that sometimes I woke convinced I was lying underneath the bed instead of on top of it.

Memory is a talking toy, by pressing on different parts of the body, you can hear the recording of retro memories.

The undisciplined man's attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important.

He's uncertain what's going to happen next. But he is certain that that's actually the point. If this is all a story, then that's what the story means. If it isn't a story, then the exact same is true. But as his friends begin the final steps, pressing buttons, answering questions on a screen, he thinks that what is forever certain is that there's always more. Always.

I'm sorry we cannot help you get home to your dimension. We have a pressing mission to get cough-syrup to a dying planet.