Smack Quotes - Page 6

• As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, Long, Faces

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

  Robin Roberts

  Running, Absurdity Of Life, Careers

  "Robin Roberts MDS: ‘GMA’ Co-Host Announces She Has Bone Marrow" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.

  Kevin Kelly

  Lying, Self, Years

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• She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.

  Neil Tennant

  Success, Europe, Lost Everything

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

  Jay Baruchel

  Talking, Should, Bunch

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

  Edward Bunker

  Pain, Agony, Broken

  Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.261, Oldcastle Books

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• I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I gobbled crystal meth at 12, smoked hashish at 13, and was shooting smack at 17, which explains how I got Hepatitis C, which was the basis of my first book, which was a humor book about dying.

  Dave Barry

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

  Emily Giffin

  Moving, Ordinary Days, Praying

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• When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Teenager, Believe, Athlete

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• I'm pretty chirpy. I can talk a little too much smack.

  Tom Brady

  Littles, Too Much, I Can

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• In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

  Fred Reed

  School, Civilization, Ideas

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• At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.

  John Vinocur

  Cutting, Climbing, Wind

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• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fighting, Talking, People

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• I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

  Marilyn Manson

  Believe, Destiny, Way

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• We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs... Doubles are almost better. I mean, home runs are great, but when you've got guys who smack those doubles, you're in good shape, you've got a lot of guys in scoring position.

  Ned Yost

  Running, Home, Mean

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• Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Ocean, Feet

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  War, Volcanoes, Ice

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  California, Earth, Palate

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• Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  War, Hard Work, Dark

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• Man, I don't wanna do what all the other guys do. I don't wanna end up in the booth after the games telling you what I think and talking smack about the guys on the floor when they are a lot better than that. I wanna be different. I don't wanna be known as Commentator Shaq. I wanna be a doctor or something good. I wanna be Dr. Shaq, Officer Shaq, Deputy Shaq.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Men, Thinking, Doctors

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• the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

  Jan Morris

  Personality, Canada, Faces

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.525, Faber & Faber

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• During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

  Molly Ivins

  Government, Stories, Looks

  "Jon Carroll" by Jon Carroll, www.sfgate.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.

  Rupert Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Taken

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• One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.

  Zach Braff

  Dog, Vegas, Two

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• There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

  Michael Gambon

  School, Mouths, Spells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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