Blast Quotes - Page 6

• Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.

  Jessica Lynch

  Iraq, Mind, Triumph

  "Jessica Lynch: One Iraq war veteran's unique perspective" by Susan Candiotti, Ross Levitt, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down
  the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

  Jeff Buckley

  Writing, People, Cry

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• Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Creative

  "Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture" by Rupert Murdoch, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

  Brion Gysin

  Crazy, Real, Night

  Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.77, The Overlook Press

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• The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

  Billy Graham

  Dust, Way, New Life

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When chill November's surly blast
  Made fields and forests bare.

  Robert Burns

  Fields, Forests, November

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• Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Intellectual, Watches

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.98, Main Street Books

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• A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.

  Ben Katchor

  Running, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Friends, Dream, Real

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• For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

  Frederick Franck

  Wise, Talking, Looks

  Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

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• Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at intermission. They stepped, strutted, stomped, romped, ran rung, hung, flung, flew, threw and played their way through 16 numbers (17 if you count the percussion encore in the lobby that stopped the departing crowd in its collective tracks). It was Blast! and it was fantastic. That said, the show is a cacophony of color and creativity a musical montage offering nearly two hours of stimuli.

  Jan Perry

  Creativity, Thinking, Feet

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• A musical blast! Fun for the whole nuclear family!

  Michael Musto

  Fun, Musical, Nuclear Families

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• So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

  William James

  Men, Rocks, Self

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.114, Harvard University Press

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• Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.

  Neal S. Dow

  Children, War, Rain

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• Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Blow, Rights

  "A deadly franchise" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2003.

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• Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

  Sara Coleridge

  Dull, November

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1853). “Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme”, p.10

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• Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Wall, Passion

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• The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

  George Washington

  Government, Foundation, Constitution

  George Washington (1858). “The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.257

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• They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Blow, Glowing

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Horns, Thousand

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “The Lady of the Lake: A Poem”, p.190

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• Pentecost came with the sound of a mighty rushing wind, a violent blast from heaven! Heaven has not exhausted its blasts, but our danger is we are getting frightened of them.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Wind, Rushing, Heaven

  Smith Wigglesworth (2006). “Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer”, p.213, Destiny Image Publishers

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

  Robert Montgomery

  Uplifting, Ocean, Iron

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem”, p.26

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• People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it or describe it or lay claim to it. We want our coupledoms to look... sanitized and pretty and worthy of admiration. And anger blasts are ugly. But, I think that is a crock. There is a kind of fighting that isn't ugly. There is a way for anger to come our as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Couple, Mean, Fighting

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• At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.

  Jimmy Durante

  Morning, Children, Couple

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• Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.

  David Hayter

  Games, Snakes, Voice

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