Top 299 Tight Quotes

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It’s the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

I don’t concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.

I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.

I have no problem lining up running back, tight end, or fullback.

It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we’re very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood.

Mum was a disciplinarian. Raising a child on your own forces you to have to keep the boundaries tight.

Sexiness today is not about having a perfect body and wearing a tight mini skirt; it’s about what you don’t show that’s truly sexy.

Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX – good punk bands that were fast and tight.

I play Harsh Vardhan, a good cop. ‘Baaz’ is a thriller, in which you doubt every character. I loved the script, as it is very tight and exciting.

I can’t speak for other people but the budget of my films is super tight to an extent that people can’t even imagine.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.

Eating is not a bad thing; it’s not a curse. And I think to have long, sexy, lean, tight muscles, you need to feed them with good quality proteins and make sure you stay hydrated.

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded… I don’t know. It’s just such a big genre for me. At the end of the day, rap is the language of the world.

Space is tight inside a tank: very close confines, and you’re permanently banging. Like in Brad Pitt’s new movie ‘Fury’ – the clanking of metal is all you hear.

NASCAR, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

I found that doing Pilates consistently three to four times a week had an amazing effect on really toning and shaping a tight waist and legs.

Against a team who are tight inside their area, you look to find combinations, the center with the wings or with shots from outside the box.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I’ve got people up here who I’m really tight with, we’ve made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I’ve got people in my corner I can trust.

Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.

I kick it when I kick it, but I definitely take care of business. I make sure everything is tight, my finances are tight, my family is tight, my friends are perfect.

I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.

I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That’s stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.

I’m claustrophobic. I can’t go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That’s my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can’t because I’m claustrophobic.

For the most part, magic secrets are available on a level that’s overwhelming and frightening, and they are very accessible if you do the tiniest bit of digging. But, that said, there’s a certain group of individuals, in which I am included, who are very tight about secrets and don’t share them with anyone.

Playing football and being a tight end scoring points, it’s awesome to see so many members throughout the United States join to play fantasy football, to expand the sport, to make the game more interesting while you’re watching.

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I’ve dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

The script of ‘Shogun’ was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn’t take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

It really wasn’t fun any more, everything was too business-oriented. I just remember the old days when the band was really tight together, playing Eagle poker and just having a really good time while we were doing it. Towards the end, it just got too cut-throat.

Many women in their 40s make the mistake of wearing clothes that are too tight. Skimpy dresses and tight trousers can make you look older, so get the best fit you can find.

The glory of the big catch is applied more at wide receiver, and tight end would be an even match at my size. It’s such a huge advantage being on the outside.

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

Skinny jeans and an extra big t-shirt. Ugh, I cannot stand that. It looks like an idiot: it’s just proportionately wrong. And the super, super, super, super, super, super, super skinny jeans. I don’t think you can get anything done when you’re wearing clothes that tight.

I keep a really tight schedule.

Well, my dresses are very tight and mostly all made for me – couture, baby.

For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we’ve held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It’s a security bond.

For me, trying to connect our team together is so important. I know we’ll play really well when our team gets really tight. So I want to make sure I connect with the players so that I can help them be at their best.

I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They’re all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.

Although we have to do a tight three-point turn when leaving work, I pride myself on my driving skills. I’m not intimidated by a tight spot of parallel parking, passed my driving test first time and was always the designated driver in my group of friends.

The vast majority of companies don’t go public and mint dozens of millionaires. And most companies don’t go around doling out stock options; private companies tend to be very tight about ownership.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future.

I hate tight, tight stuff showing every line. I want to be sick when people are in Lycra.

I don’t go to the gym on a daily basis because it makes my muscles tight when I get in the game.

Ultimately, if you can have a very cohesive and tight unit, it obviously will pay dividends down the line.

And as a woman on television, I actually feel like you’re more representative of women if you’re – if you’ve got curves and if everything isn’t super tight.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

My life hasn’t changed, it’s been the same. What’s helped me with that is keeping my circle tight, having the people that care about me around me.

I keep my inner circle of people very small and tight, and I like to relax if I get a chance.

The musical era depicted in ‘Round and Round’ may not be pop’s brightest moment, but rather than abandon its ideas, Ariel Pink reclaims them for himself and holds on tight.

It’s tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn’t want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn’t want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

Being Scottish, I’m probably a little tight, or as the Scots say, ‘You’re cautious with your money.’ I don’t think that ‘s the worst thing in the world to be.