In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things… — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go.… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of… — James Iha Copy Share Image
Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of 'World of Warcraft' may seem… — Ray William Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear… — Chino Moreno Copy Share Image
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap. — Norman Wisdom Copy Share Image
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I approach every show from the same fundamental perspective: this is a conversation, and my job is to make people leave the… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being… — Philip Selway Copy Share Image
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and… — Paul Simonon Copy Share Image
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody… — Nastassja Kinski Copy Share Image
I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager… — Bruce McCulloch Copy Share Image