What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.
Quotes about strangling (15 Quotes)
I'm trying to keep this game under control, but at one point I look over and Bird and Dr. J are strangling each other. I ejected both. The NBA started looking at me in a different way after that, saw my leadership qualities, and that was a stepping-stone for me.
In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.
There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
Higher interest rates in the U.S. were really strangling growth in Asia.
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
The greatest cause of family breakdown is unemployment. This country of ours has the richest mineral deposits in the world and vast rich lands for agriculture and is surrounded by oceans that provide a wealth of seafood, and yet we are 190 billion in debt with an interest bill that is strangling us.
A neck God made for other use; Than strangling in a string.
This method of suffocating the chickens in polythene bags is easier and more humane than slitting their throat or strangling them.
Strangling that girl was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Number one, it was her first movie. Two, she was really nice. And three, there she was in Winslow, Arizona-the middle of nowhere--with me and Oliver Stone, and she had to get raped and murdered.
Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody maybe even disliking them a lot and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.
He said, 'So I started strangling her. To make sure she was dead I stabbed her,
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.