Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don’t like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That’s why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.
You don’t want to be wearing tight jeans and a blingy jacket on a 16-hour flight.
You know, we’re a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I’m a momma’s boy. We all are. So there’s no exclusion in this family. You’re part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.
I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.
When I got to the NFL, they asked me what number I wanted, and I said No. 44, but they told me tight ends are not allowed to have that number. So I said, ‘Just double it up for me if you can’ and took No. 88. I figured I’d be twice as good as I was.
Women’s fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It’s men’s way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they’re actually tied up.
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That’s just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don’t wait until they’re dead.
We have to keep a very tight check on quality.
I absolutely always buy in a bigger size. This is true for coats and also sweaters – I always take a bigger size because I think it looks far more chic if it’s loose-fitted rather than tight.
I have a tight family group that’s really important to me. I don’t want to work all the time.
I’ve always been terrified about not having money. I’ve been a big saver and a big earner. When I’ve been out of work, I’ve always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn’t have the things I wanted.
I feel like a turtleneck dress that’s long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I’m more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.
Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.
I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find a good book of poetry is like going to the gym for an hour. My mind just expands.
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan’s exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions… and we need to do it under tight control.
If I feel my Achilles and my ankle are tight, I make sure I get it worked on before I practice because I don’t want to put myself in the situation of possibly getting hurt.
Also, it is futile to hold on very tight to your man as this will just kill your love for each other.
I’ve got a 20 inch neck, a narrow waist and big bulging thighs so stuff off the rack doesn’t fit. It’s a nightmare to shop for shirts and trousers that are going to fit, because they’ll be tight in one place and all baggy everywhere else.
Obviously I want to be the best as a tight end.
I feel like the tight end position hasn’t been appreciated.
If you go off the Senior Bowl, that’s basically what I can do. I played H-back, I played fullback, I played tight end, I played slot receiver, I ran routes, I caught some balls, blocked, just doing that stuff.
I mean, sitcoms shouldn’t be doing ‘Saturday Night Live.’ You can’t just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.
I’ve always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country – what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But pop melodies have always been intrinsically linked to my writing style.
Working with Ice Cube was so tight. He’s cool, and I really like how he does family stuff. My guy friends couldn’t believe I was chillin’ with him. Dudes love Ice Cube.
The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, ‘How are you?’ People usually say, ‘I’m fine,’ but that’s mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, ‘I drive this car, I own this house, I’m fine.’ People ball up into these tight wads of repression.
People look down on it, but I love the community of horror. Writers and directors are a tight group of people, and we help and support each other.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you’ve been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn’t go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.
I am finicky about making sure my sneakers are pretty tight. It is almost like a superstition for me.
‘Skins’ was like our uni. I’m tight with everyone from ‘Skins’ because we had that special experience together.
It is exhilarating and dangerous to perform live. You are walking a tight rope in front of hundreds of people: anything could happen on stage, and whatever does, you must find a way to make it work.
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
It’s far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.
I’ve always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots – I’m pretty good with either one.
I think a lot of women aren’t really sure about their bodies, so they don’t always get their fit right, whether it’s too tight and too sexy or way oversized and doesn’t show figure at all.
In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it’s different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It’s hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
Whenever I wear things that feel too tight or dig in that’s always a clear understanding that I’m not going to feel good that day.
Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct ‘Catching Fire.’ As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.
I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I’m like, ‘I need to do my sit-ups!’
For diabetes in particular, we know there’s a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn’t that be great?
We knew we were tight and good, but we didn’t know we were going to be the band to help each generation cut its umbilical cord.
That’s gotta be the one remaining constant – jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
I’m a size 8-10. I never weigh myself – I go on how tight my jeans are.
I don’t play this game to be an average tight end.
The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn’t exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.
So the Madonna thing, I wrote a song with Diplo, she liked it, tweaked it and then made it her own and it became ‘Hold Tight.’
But I’ve always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn’t particularly changed my lifestyle.
The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It’s much harder.
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face… it didn’t have enough information.
Moscow and Washington have evolved a delicate process for ‘de-confliction’ in the tight Syrian airspace, where accidents or miscommunication could be disastrous.
I can’t see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one’s business. We all stick together. We’re a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.
I don’t obsess about my weight. I just know I’ve got to watch it when my pants feel tight.
