Popping Quotes

• I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

  Cameron Diaz

  Valentines Day, Kissing, Promise

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• I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses: "This poem is kind of important to me. I don't know why, but I'm going to just keep it in the back of my mind." I just kept coming back to it. As I started putting the book together and writing the stories for it, this idea of buzzing as a word kept popping up in my brain.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Book, Writing, Dark

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• I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.' Bernard began to sing again. Timidly, Leigh-Cheri joined in. Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri passed out under the tablecloth.

  Tom Robbins

  Echoes, People, Three

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• Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Rays, Corn, Said

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• Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Air, Flames

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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• I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after league of us, flaming swords, all that, well, what I'm trying to say is who has time to go round picking people out and popping them up in the air to sneer at the people dying of radiation sickness on the parched and burning earth below them? If that's your idea of a morally acceptable time, I might add.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Mean, Ideas

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• I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

  Charlaine Harris

  Tired, People, Railroads

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.99, Penguin

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• My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest

  Libba Bray

  Eye, School, Kids

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• We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

  Inga Muscio

  Believe, Healing, Medicine

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.50, Seal Press

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• You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.

  Kiran Desai

  Jobs, Home, Men

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Yellow, Joy, Contradicting

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fear, Book, Mean

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• You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Baby, Eye, Flirting

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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• ...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.

  Eoin Colfer

  Painful Death, Tourists, Tails

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• You can’t. He has it shielded. Besides, he’s a god and can be a nasty one if you upset him. You try popping into any place where his beloved wife is and you’ll get fried faster than chicken at KFC. He doesn’t have a sense of humor when it comes to her. So wipe the frown off your face before you hurt her feelings and get gutted for it. (Phobos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Beloved Wife, Kfc

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.152, Macmillan

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• If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.

  Hulk Hogan

  Judging, Rope, Tissues

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• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, Kids, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Cat, Swings, Games

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• Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

  Adora Svitak

  Enthusiasm, Bubbles

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• For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

  Lawrence Welk

  Trying, Sound, Bottles

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• What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Bombs, Anthrax

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

  Gary Gygax

  Art, Games, Rpgs

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• Sometimes when you are trying not to think about something it keeps popping back in your head you can't help it you think about it and think about it and think about it until your brain feels like a squashed pea.

  Sharon Creech

  Thinking, Brain, Trying

  Sharon Creech (2001). “Love That Dog”, p.64, A&C Black

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• I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

  Reif Larsen

  Regret, Italian, Thinking

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.

  Charlaine Harris

  Guy, Trends, Want

  Charlaine Harris (2008). “From Dead to Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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