You have to be really good to get away with smashing a…

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

— Deborah Tannen

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…

— Saffron Burrows

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

— Norman Wisdom

And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and…

— Edith Wharton

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you…

— Chino Moreno

Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of 'World of Warcraft' may seem totally justified…

— Ray William Johnson

When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of indie films,…

— James Iha

With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved…

— William J. Clinton

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

— Jonathan Chait

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it…

— Billy Connolly

I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.

— Rick Riordan

I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things smashing. I…

— Jason Diamond

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

— Billy Corgan

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my…

— Octavio Paz