When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be…

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected…

— George Washington

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

— Trent Reznor

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

— Richard Adams

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

— Malcolm X

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back…

— Johnny Vegas

Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner…

— Adam Young

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

— Huston Smith

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either…

— Robert Fisk

“My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!”

— Jhonen Vasquez

To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't…

— Bill Maher

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

— Hamid Karzai

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped…

— Stanley Kubrick

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is…

— Bill O'Reilly

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

— William Blake

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis