Kryptonite Quotes

• Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win.

  Jim Larranaga

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman.

  Kathy Lette

  Women, Age

  Kathy Lette (2005). “A Stitch in Time: A Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Kryptonite doesn’t bother me, either.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Bother

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• David was catnip and kryptonite to me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It turns out Superman is weak to Kryptonite and horses.

  Zach Braff

  Horse, Weak, Turns

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• It's been quite a while since I was really afraid that there was a boogeyman in my closet, although I am still very careful to keep my feet under the covers when I go to sleep, because the covers are magic, and if your feet are covered, it's like boogeyman Kryptonite.

  Stephen King

  Sleep, Feet, Magic

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• Fashion magazine disease articles. My personal Kryptonite.

  Carolyn Crane

  Fashion, Magazines, Disease

  Carolyn Crane (2010). “Mind Games”, p.31, Spectra

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• I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn't exist.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball

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• Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

  Kathy Lette

  Women, Age, Hell

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• Thanksgiving is worry's kryptonite.

  Matt Chandler

  Worry

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• Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

  Gillian Flynn

  People, Ironic, Earnestness

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.281, Broadway Books

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• When it comes to reflexes, I'm like a cat. I'm Catwoman. I'm invulnerable. The only reason he got a piece of me is because of the rain. Cats don't like water. It impairs us. It's our kryptonite.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Rain, Cat, Water

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a secret stash of Nutella that I pull out when necessary. That chocolate-hazelnut combo is my wife's kryptonite.

  Michael Weatherly

  Wife, Chocolate, Secret

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• I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Daughter, Halloween, School

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• In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'

  Seanbaby

  Fighting, Men, Jeans

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• A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, 'I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!' He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.

  Roger Ebert

  Girl, Supernatural Beings, Feet

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.58, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!

  Steve Irwin

  Desire, Wildlife, Uncanny

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• Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

  Stephen King

  Running, House, Juju

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• We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes messes. We don't understand someone who is constantly right, who is only felled by Kryptonite. Chuck Klosterman had a pretty great book about this whole thing - I Wear The Black Hat - that came out last year and which I greatly enjoyed.

  Tod Goldberg

  Book, Years, Black

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• For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Guitar, Guy, Would Be

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.92, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I liked "Superman/Batman: The Search for Kryptonite" because I really enjoyed the interaction between those two characters.

  Henry Cavill

  Character, Two, Interaction

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Because there’s a clock attached to every beautiful woman. From the second she comes into her own, she begins to decline, because she begins to age. Aging is every beautiful woman’s kryptonite. And so, yes, it’s ridiculous and no, you don’t have much time and of course it’s not fair. Those three statements are the essence of beauty.

  Paul Rudnick

  Beautiful, Essence, Age

  Paul Rudnick (2013). “Gorgeous”, p.57, Scholastic Inc.

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