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

  Billy Corgan

  Pumpkin, Plans, Wanted

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Spiritual

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• Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.104, New World Library

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas's back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out from under the crushing weight of the sky. But it was too late. "Noooooo!" He bellowed so hard it shook the mountain. "Not again!" Atlas was trapped under his old burden.

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Struggle, Sky

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Kaia tossed Strider a shut-your-mouth frown before bouncing in her seat. "Do I get to help? Can I? You may not know this, but I'm very handy with a blade of any kind, a hacksaw, a whip, a-" "Hey! Someone went through my bag," William said. "So?" Kaia continued, as if William hadn't spoken. "Whatever the weapon, I'm good with it." He would not be impressed. "We won't be using weapons. We'll be smashing jugulars." "Oh, oh! We can play Who Can Smash More!" "No, we can't because you can't help," Stider said at the same time William blurted out, "I'd be disappointed if you didn't help.

  Gena Showalter

  Play, Bags, Hey

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• I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

  Ruth Gordon

  Thinking, Faces, Facts

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
  Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
  Or arm th' obdured breast
  With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, White, Eggs

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• Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.

  Ann Coulter

  Rights, Movement, Window

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• When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Flower, Opening Up, Black

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