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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!

    Night   Two   New Orleans  
  • You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

    "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.
  • Smashing heads does not open minds.

    Mind   Doe   Open Mind  
  • 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.

  • The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

    Band   Pumpkin   Bigs  
    "Smashing Pumpkins: Fully Illustrated Book & Interview Disc". Book by Jim Stapleton, 1996.
  • You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

  • I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

    Book   Names   Legendary  
    A letter to his wife Polly in October 1938. "Bare-faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard" by Russell Miller, p. 81, 1987.
  • Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

  • All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

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

  • Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.

  • I love smashing stuff.

    Stuff   Smashing  
    "Watching the Walking Dead Finale with Its Manliest Survivor". Interview with John Lopez, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2010.
  • A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  • Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

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

    Religious   Style   Looks  
  • 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.

    Destiny   Men   Cynical  
  • Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

    Running   Epic   Climbing  
  • In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

    Mind   Doe   Smashing  
    Deborah Tannen (2012). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, p.26, Ballantine Books
  • The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

    Idols   Society   Looks  
    Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.15, Transaction Publishers
  • If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.

    Nice   Cat   Kitchen  
  • One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

    Lying   People   Easy  
    Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr
  • Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape

    Night   Vegas   White  
    Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
  • I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things smashing. I try to look for the happy memories from the brief time my parents were married, and I can't really recall that. From the start things were messed up, and I just kept moving through the years and trying to pick out the little bits of evidence that would help me prove to myself that it wasn't my doing. But it took finding out somebody really does love me, who's not my parents or a relative, to really know that I was loveable.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • This goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: To the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It's just a little thing, really. But do you think that when you're done smashing up the world and blowing each other to bits and demanding special privileges while you're at it... do you think the rest of us could have our planet back?

  • I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.

    "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?", p. 327, 1995.
  • I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

    Want   Smashing   Whole  
  • As he fell toward the highway, a horrible scenario flashed through his mind: his body smashing against an SUV's windshield, some annoyed commuter trying to push him off with the wipers. "Stupid 16-year-old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!

    Stupid   Fall   Kids  
  • Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw myself at him with loudness or hysterical yelling; calmly, gently, easy baby easy. He is probably strutting the backs among crocuses now with seven Scandinavian mistresses. And I sit, spiderlike, waiting, here, home; Penelope weaving webs of Webster, turning spindles of Tourneur. Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: I am here; I wait; and he plays on the banks of the river Cam like a casual faun.

    Baby   Home   Rivers  
  • For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.

    Music   Fun   Cat  
    Rave UK Magazine, June 1967.
  • Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

    Rats   Cages   Rage  
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