Compact Quotes

You'll have to look hard for one, but if you decide to change your new-shape 3-Series within the next five years, the same version will still be in production. That's great news for residuals. Add the appeal of the badge and you've got the ultimate used compact exec. - Mike Brewer

Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence. - Dan Brown

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. - Jeff Buckley

With a chance to get on the scoreboard first, I just tried to have a compact swing. But I hit the ball on the sweet spot of the bat and got all of it. - Hitoshi Tamura

Where in years past things were removed from one another, now it'll be together -- it'll be more compact and it wouldn't be as removed from the local residents. - Katherine Young

When you look at the contrast between compacts and full-size (SUVs), it has to be driven in part by gas prices... Why else would there be such polarity? - Tom Kontos

When they lost their jobs, they lost everything... income, benefits, friends, reputation, and sometimes even family. Their years of work didn't deliver what they thought the organization had promised. They'd had an unwritten social compact with their employer that if they did their job well, they could keep it until retirement. - Joanne Ciulla

When the field compacts you have to be precise. If you're not precise you run out of room. We've gone inside when we should've gone outside and there's so little room for error. When one person is off it bunches up someone else. - Matt Baker

When hybrids were first introduced in the United States, they were only available in sub-compact cars that were not practical for all vehicle buyers. - Anthony Pratt

When a shoot was over, I'd get in a cab, pull out a compact and go, 'WHOA! Who's that ?' - Christie Brinkley