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Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation. -- Noel Coward
Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful. -- Jahangir Khan
Dive on them and squash them if you must. -- Jeremy Taylor
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. -- Alan Bennett
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. -- Jason Statham
Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport. -- Jahangir Khan
Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top. -- Jahangir Khan
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something. -- Emo Philips
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else. -- Mario Batali
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. -- Josh Billings
Big government squashes the human spirit -- Dennis Prager
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. -- Charles Lamb
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. -- Anne Sexton
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. -- Shana Alexander
I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. -- George Harrison
Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top. -- Jahangir Khan
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. -- William Shakespeare
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? -- Paul Simon
Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. -- Desmond Tutu
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. -- John Jay Chapman
You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft. -- Talib Kweli
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. -- Camille Claudel
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. -- Ian Botham
When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon. -- Rumi
I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person. -- Nolan Bushnell
I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years. -- Arlen Specter
I played a lot of squash for a lot of years. -- Jack Layton
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. -- Arlen Specter
I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Shine like the day I set cosmic eyes on you, friend, by the light of the sweet squash in my lovely laser broom. -- Bradley Chicho
Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine. -- Sarah Silverman
During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me. -- Scott Stossel
Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate. -- Alanis Morissette
I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships. -- Bonnie Raitt
We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. -- Bryan Cranston
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness. -- Vusi Mahlasela
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. -- Camille Claudel
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While you can find zucchini in markets in most places year-round, allowing you to make everything from breakfast dishes like zucchini and onion frittatas to snacks like zucchini-stuffed crab cakes, the onset of fall marks the beginning of hard squash season. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it. -- Carmen Ejogo
During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold. -- Jahangir Khan
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Fight piracy; don't squash innovation. -- Joe Kraus
Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash. -- Traci Lords
I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls. -- Matthew Bellamy
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him. -- Jimmy Connors
Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional. -- Jahangir Khan
My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day. -- Jojo Moyes
I do a lot of running. Bit of squash, bit of tennis. I don't like feeling out of shape. -- Richard Coyle
I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash. -- Caitlin Moran
I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup. -- Cynthia Nixon
Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. -- S. J. Perelman
I was so happy when I went to Rome and I saw that the Romans eat them too, the squash blossoms. No wonder I like the Italians! -- Sandra Cisneros
We shouldn't be thinking about individuals or departments. We should be thinking about national interest. Lifting the standard of Pakistan squash is like working towards national interest. -- Jahangir Khan
If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness. -- Vusi Mahlasela
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Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains. -- Michael Chabon

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