Demolishing Quotes

#1. Wanna dance?" he asked
"I guess you'll do. All the cute guys are already taken," I answered with a grin.
"You wound me with your callousness," he sighed dramatically, taking me in his arms.
"I do have a black belt in demolishing overstuffed egos.

Lani Woodland

#2. Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.

Peter Brook

#3. Having done an impressive job of demolishing the basic societal building block of the family, the ambitious liberal is now moving on to demolishing the basic building block of the sexes.

Mark Steyn

#4. In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

Martin Sorrell

#5. We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Alfred Jarry

#6. I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps.

Kenneth Adelman

#7. Voice-cry. Agony
the spoken "word" exploded, blown to bits by suffering and anger, demolishing discourse: this is how she has always been heard before, ever since the time when masculine society began to push her offstage, expulsing her, plundering her. Ever since Medea, ever since Electra.

Helene Cixous

#8. Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Candice Bergen

#9. Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#11. As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]

Sarah Bakewell

#12. Forget demolishing the grooves of the past. What you're creating is a new groove so deep, so powerful, that your thoughts will automatically flow down this one.

Kamal Ravikant

#13. The motivation hacker learns to steer his life towards higher Value and to have fun demolishing boring necessities in his way. Impulsiveness

Nick Winter

#14. You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#15. Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.

Fanny Kemble

#16. Mother Nature, as Tennyson said, is "red in tooth and claw," demolishing every beautiful thing she has ever created.

Caitlin Doughty

#17. Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

Mary Russell Mitford

#18. We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

John Shadegg

#19. A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

Roddy Woomble

#21. If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can.

Peace Pilgrim

#22. No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

W.S. Gilbert

#23. May you fear no evil. ...And may evil fear you.

N.D. Wilson

#24. The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Peter Ustinov

#25. I'm going to keep asking until you say yes." "I

Abigail Roux

#26. God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.

Mason Cooley

#27. Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.

Pope John Paul II

#28. The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

#29. My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Anna Held

#30. Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh