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Quotes About Pressure

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
~ Neal Stephenson
Maybe that's what a leader is, Dinah. The one person who can't—who shouldn't—share her problems with anyone else.
~ Neal Stephenson
Much depended on how rapidly it would prove feasible to mass-produce inflatable structures; these made it possible to create much more spacious volumes by housing people in what amounted to thick-skinned balloons. But making balloons that could withstand atmospheric pressure indefinitely while also standing up to solar radiation, thermal swings, and micrometeoroids was no small project.
~ Neal Stephenson
It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I'm forced to do exactly what's expected.
~ Neal Stephenson
Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn't match the pace of the port team.
~ Neal Stephenson
I love the scent of a man under pressure.
~ Neal Stephenson
Rufus would have the boss's undivided attention for three hours, after which there would be something called a "hard stop.
~ Neal Stephenson
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before…
~ Ned Vizzini
I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
~ Ned Vizzini
It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
~ Ned Vizzini
Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.
~ Ned Vizzini
Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?
~ Ned Vizzini
I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that probably you only get in preschool.
~ Ned Vizzini
You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how it was before...
~ Ned Vizzini
There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are.
~ Ned Vizzini
I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for Preschool.
~ Ned Vizzini
I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.
~ Ned Vizzini
Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ordinary matter is what we are all made of. It has gravity and interacts with light. Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way. Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Those stars with more than about ten times the mass of the Sun achieve sufficient pressure and temperature in their cores to manufacture dozens of elements heavier than hydrogen, including those that compose planets and whatever life may thrive upon them.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ordinary matter is what we are all made of. It has gravity and interacts with light. Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way. Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
typical human adults constantly experience nearly 20 tons of force on their bodies, just from Earth's atmosphere!
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Evidently, women have eating disorders, men have sex addiction. I suppose both share the same obsession: women's bodies.
~ Neil Strauss
They know you and George are coming to get us," her mother said. George doesn't want you to come and live with us. "They think we're rich." I can't get pregnant.
~ Nell Freudenberger