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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
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
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 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