Cannonball Quotes

#1. One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I've done in all my movies since.

Jackie Chan

#2. Good luck hitting a skinny little schooner cutting through the waves bound for fortune and glory."
"I'll quote you on that when a cannonball lands in my lap," said Nina.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. Of all animal movements, flight is indisputably the finest. . . . The fact that a creature as heavy, bulk for bulk, as many solid substances, can by the unaided movements of its wings urge itself through the air with a speed little short of a cannonball, fills the mind with wonder.

David McCullough

#4. The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Victor Hugo

#5. Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Charles V

#7. Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Kenny G

#8. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, and Jimmy Cobb playing "All Blues," a moody, blues form piece in 6/8, off the 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Blake Crouch

#9. To Ejinar that cannonball was a monster with a will of its own. It showed him what war was: not a battery that exploded and sent matchstick soldiers fleeing, but a dragon that breathed hot fire on his naked heart.

Carsten Jensen

#10. "Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."

Robert Glasper

#11. When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

George Carlin

#12. A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

Joseph Joubert

#13. If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

Jules Verne

#14. A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Victor Hugo

#15. In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

Gene Siskel

#16. Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, courage teach me to be shy ... because it's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball.

Damien Rice

#17. I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

Rob Lowe

#18. If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Bernard Williams

#19. I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

Cannonball Adderley

#20. You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

Cannonball Adderley

#21. Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

#22. The United States is in a tough spot.

Steven Kotler

#23. It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

Donald Knuth

#24. It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

Damien Rice

#25. Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.

Cannonball Adderley

#26. There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Cannonball Adderley

#27. Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Andrei Codrescu

#28. You know what i like about buttons? They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons - little but strong.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#29. Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

Cannonball Adderley

#30. Are you sure? Is there anything else outside of my comfort zone that you'd like me to do for you tonight?

Whitney Gracia Williams

#31. It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.

Eric Fellner

#32. A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!

Cannonball Adderley