
"Idontwannabeyouanymore" · Official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tn2S3kJlyU
Dont Smile At Me (2017)
A collection of quotes on the topic of tights, likeness, hold, doing.
"Idontwannabeyouanymore" · Official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tn2S3kJlyU
Dont Smile At Me (2017)
Frequently attributed to Nin, but without cited source in her work (possibly due to a quotation in Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions (2000) by Dan Millman that attributed the quote to Nin without source).
In March 2013, a former Director of Public Relations at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, Elizabeth Appell, claimed she had authored the quote in 1979 for an inspirational header on a class schedule: http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2013/03/who-wrote-risk-is-the-mystery-solved/
Disputed
Variant: The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Source: Review of Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton, in The Adelphi (April 1931)
Paralyzed, written by Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley (1956)
Song lyrics
"Notes on Professor Robison's Dissertation on Steam-engines" (1769)
Context: In Newcomen's engine, the piston is kept tight by water, which could not be applicable in this new method; as, if any of it entered into a partially-exhausted and hot cylinder, it would boil, and prevent the production of a vacuum, and would also cool the cylinder by its evaporation during the descent of the piston. I proposed to remedy this defect by employing wax, tallow, or other grease, to lubricate and keep the piston tight. It next occurred to me, that the mouth of the cylinder being open, the air which entered to act on the piston would cool the cylinder, and condense some steam on again filling it. I therefore proposed to put an air-tight cover upon the cylinder, with a hole and stuffing-box for the piston-rod to slide through, and to admit steam above the piston to act upon it, instead of the atmosphere.... There still remained another source of the destruction of steam, the cooling of the cylinder by the external air, which would produce an internal condensation whenever steam entered it, and which would be repeated every stroke; this I proposed to remedy by an external cylinder, containing steam, surrounded by another of wood, or of some other substance which would conduct heat slowly.
“It's like a bar of soap in the bathtub — you have it in your hand until you hold on too tight.”
“A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.”
Source: The Dress Doctor
Source: Shantaram
Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
Source: Through the Zombie Glass
2012, Sandy Hook Prayer Vigil (December 2012)
United States of Banana (2011)
This is composed of excerpts (with some paraphrasing) from a speech of Cato as reported in Livy's History of Rome, book 34, sections 2-4 http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy34.html.
Misattributed
Cold Sweat, written with Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (1967)
Song lyrics
“We are a strong, tight-knit family who has made it through some very, very hard times.”
2015, State of the Union Address (January 2015)
“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”
Source: Norwegian Wood (1987)
Old Town Folks (1869) Ch. 39 (p. 507) Sometimes paraphrased: "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." and "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn".
Context: When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, — and so, boys, go, and God bless you!
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.”
“daddy says the world is
a drum tight and hard
and i told him
i’m gonna beat
out my own rhythm”
“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
Source: Black Beauty
“Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.”
Source: The Hippopotamus Pool
“Where's Kraven? Is he stalking me too?"
His mouth went tight. "I'm not stalking you.”
Source: Dark Kiss
Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows
Source: She's So Dead to Us
Source: 11 Birthdays
“The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Can you keep a secret?”
“Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain’t nothing going to get out.”
Source: Infamous
(Manuscript, 1913); as quoted at dekorera.tumblr: Futurist manifesto of men's clothing http://dekorera.tumblr.com/post/3212646425/futurist-manifesto-of-mens-clothing-by-giacomo
Futurist Manifesto of Men's clothing,' 1913/1914
Something deeply unfeminist about a miniskirt Article http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article432962.ece. Cinemania. May 27, 2004.
Guillory speaks in response to the question, How old is too old for a micro-mini?
“… he sang with his eyes squeezed tight, as if he were dropping from a great height.”
The Immortals (2009)
“Hold very tight please
Ting ting”
A Transport of Delight
Well, he has now.
Like It Was, p.255
H.C. Potter describing the "The Astaire dolly", as quoted in Croce, Arlene. The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book, W.H. Allen, London, 1974. p. 127. ISBN 0491001592.
a note of Munch, written in Ekely, 1929; Munch Museum
1896 - 1930
Nahj al-Balagha
'Trava posle nas', Ogonek, 19 (1987). [The Demise of Marxism-Leninism in Russia, A. Brown, 2004, 100, 9780230554405, Springer]
"Cairo" online at ditch, the poetry that matters http://www.ditchpoetry.com/yahialababidi.htm <p>
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)