#pressing

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#envy #feel #get #i #i feel

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#am #asian #away #consider #depressing

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#any #been #cautious #century #character

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#feelings #galt-niederhoffer #life #spontaneity #summer

...whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time. ↗

— Chang-rae Lee

#change

It's a wonderful life if you can find it. ↗

— Nick Cave

#depressing #inspirational #inspirational

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#fine #grandfather #me #minister #people

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#depressing #may #most #our #our time

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#behalf #conviction #country #dare #disregard

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#capable #entire #every #expressing #i