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It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. — Lauren Oliver

I think we are worlds compressed into human form. — Jeanette Winterson

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. — Gregory Chaitin

Jule was a poet - poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence. — Joan D. Vinge

Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand. — Dorothy Parker

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. — Margaret Atwood

What Ann Druyan said: Compressed into a minute-long segment, the brain waves of a woman newly in love sound like a string of firecrackers exploding. — Jenny Offill

What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion. — Milan Kundera

It's a tough marketplace right now ... It is very compressed ... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before. — Peter Chernin

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. — Walter Cronkite

Compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust, ... trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams ... — Mary Roach

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite. — Richard Wagner

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking. — Kenneth Branagh

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. — Mark Twain

As early as 1912, we worked on the problem of the hydrogenation of organic substances with the aid of highly compressed hydrogen. — Friedrich Bergius

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to ... — Henri Matisse

horizontally compressed — Nicholson Baker

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble — Remy De Gourmont

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that. — Roni Horn

Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years. — Bill Mollison

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed. — Anna Quindlen

the whisper of space being compressed. — Anthony Doerr

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed — Charles Dickens

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom. — Joe Hill

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely. — Yann Martel

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then ... Well, then I woke up. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits ... waits. — Jerry Spinelli

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper - the weight of a human heart. — Joanne Harris

Good Poem

Sit,
lay down,
roll over,
here's
your treat. — Kristen Henderson

You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. — Robert Gottlieb

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed. — Carrie Ann Inaba

I cannot squeeze the stars; but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed. — Munia Khan

The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured. — Walter Kirn

Some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense ... — John Geddes

I am tired from having lived seventeen different lives, compressed into the space of one. — Augusten Burroughs

I could have been verse made flesh or compressed moonlight. Anything other than who I was now. — Roshani Chokshi

A scrap of seventeenth-century sunlight compressed into dots and pixels, — Donna Tartt

A story is time itself, boxed and compressed. — Michael Paterniti

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ... — Antonin Artaud

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format. — Alexis Taylor

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. — Annie E. Clark

James Smith argues that liturgies are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body. — James K.A. Smith

Fear is a valuable commodity, it's common sense compressed into its purest form. — Mark Lawrence

Our history is too compressed. We're trying to fit a lifetime into a day. — Nicola Yoon