Smashing Quotes

• I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Thinking, Helping

  Winston Churchill's letter to a friend, 1916.

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• Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Book, Done, Left Behind

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• I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Teenager, Drinking, Evil

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patience, Eggs, Fowl

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.404, Wildside Press LLC

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• I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

  Pauley Perrette

  Passion, Thinking, Rights

  "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.

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• You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

  Norman Wisdom

  Dog, Legs, Night Time

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

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• When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Sea, Political, Pedestal

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.

  Amy Poehler

  Wedding, Jobs, Shrimp

  "Amy Poehler: Playing Politics, But Only On Television". NPR Interview, www.npr.org. October 20, 2011.

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• What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Spiritual

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• I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

  Billy Connolly

  Children, Japan, Comedy

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• Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

  Billy Corgan

  Rats, Cages, Rage

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• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  Saffron Burrows

  Moving, Actors, Film

  "Word comes through that another punch-up has taken place. Blimey. It's only day three..." by Saffron Burrows, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2001.

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• I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

  Billy Corgan

  Pumpkin, Plans, Wanted

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• I love smashing stuff.

  Norman Reedus

  Stuff

  "Watching the Walking Dead Finale with Its Manliest Survivor". Interview with John Lopez, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2010.

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• On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Night, Two, New Orleans

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• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Skills, People

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• You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

  Lyle Lovett

  Guitar, Get Away

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.

  Craig Stone

  Children, Sunset, End Of The World

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• It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Cynical

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• Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

  Maureen Johnson

  Running, Parent, Pieces

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “Girl at Sea”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

  Robert Crumb

  Song, Heart, Kids

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• There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Echoes, Doors

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.39, Pottermore

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• The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson this is for a young girl. If you're eating your curds and whey and a spider comes along, I don't think there's anything wrong with picking up a newspaper, smashing it, and going back to your breakfast.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Thinking, Nurse

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.153, Granta Books

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• Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

  Rob Sheffield

  Religious, Style, Looks

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• When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

  Will Sheff

  Real, Decay, Concrete

  Source: www.believermag.com

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