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The car looked like an accordion, he was crumpled up inside and his face was completely destroyed. His nose and jaw were broken in several places. The car was still running and it was dangerous to get in. Because of the impact, the doors wouldn’t open. It was Elizabeth who pulled at the back door and managed to get in. He started choking and she actually stuck her fingers down his throat to pull out his broken teeth. Everyone at the scene said she literally saved his life. – Charles Casillo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. – Tom Waits	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
When you mutate the gene, it basically shrinks the plant like an accordion so you can make it much more compact. – Zachary Lippman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The spirit of the law is that since many people drive well above the speed limit, it creates an ‘accordion effect’ as traffic starts backing up behind the slower vehicle, this is where many of our crashes occur on the interstates.It’s all in the name of safety. – Stephen Wheeles	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I was on the phone with my 7-year-old daughter who asked me if her daddy was going to die, and that's when I collapsed on the floor like an accordion, i got up and burst out of the sand-bagged hospital doors to get back home to my husband, but I was stopped by 5-foot deep freezing seawater. – Kim Fish	Found on CNN 7 years ago
He was playing 'Do the Hustle' - on an accordion. She said she found this 'sexy and brave.' I mean, the brave part I understand. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s bad for my health, it’s horrid for the environment and it’s also really ugly, it’s like a garbage accordion. – Tal Winter	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Often when doing an add-on or tapping an accordion, Fed and OCC regulated banks - even if they are in the syndicate now - are saying no if lead arranging a new deal will be criticized. – Richard Farley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. – Robertson Davies	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind. – Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The car looked like an accordion, he was crumpled up inside and his face was completely destroyed. His nose and jaw were broken in several places. The car was still running and it was dangerous to get in. Because of the impact, the doors wouldn’t open. It was Elizabeth who pulled at the back door and managed to get in. He started choking and she actually stuck her fingers down his throat to pull out his broken teeth. Everyone at the scene said she literally saved his life.

– Charles Casillo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

– Tom Waits

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

When you mutate the gene, it basically shrinks the plant like an accordion so you can make it much more compact.

– Zachary Lippman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The spirit of the law is that since many people drive well above the speed limit, it creates an ‘accordion effect’ as traffic starts backing up behind the slower vehicle, this is where many of our crashes occur on the interstates.It’s all in the name of safety.

– Stephen Wheeles

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I was on the phone with my 7-year-old daughter who asked me if her daddy was going to die, and that's when I collapsed on the floor like an accordion, i got up and burst out of the sand-bagged hospital doors to get back home to my husband, but I was stopped by 5-foot deep freezing seawater.

– Kim Fish

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He was playing 'Do the Hustle' - on an accordion. She said she found this 'sexy and brave.' I mean, the brave part I understand.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s bad for my health, it’s horrid for the environment and it’s also really ugly, it’s like a garbage accordion.

– Tal Winter

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Often when doing an add-on or tapping an accordion, Fed and OCC regulated banks - even if they are in the syndicate now - are saying no if lead arranging a new deal will be criticized.

– Richard Farley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

– Robertson Davies

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

– Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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