Showdown Quotes

#1. Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.

Todd Berger

#2. I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.

Darryl Dawkins

#3. Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Claudia Black

#4. The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.

Denny Hamlin

#5. These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone. 'They come from many places. They come in many different colors and sizes. But they are all beautiful.

Margi Preus

#6. Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

Barry Williams

#7. I believe we're headed to an Elijah/Jezebel showdown on the Earth, not just in America but all over the globe, and the main warriors will be the prophets of Baal versus the prophets of God, and there will be no middle ground.

Lou Engle

#8. I haven't done 'Celebrity Poker Showdown,' and I would love them to have me, but I think I'm not a big enough celebrity yet to get on there.

Robin Weigert

#9. The drawing of a 'Pipeline Wave' started with Billabong as a commission for their 2009 Pipeline Masters campaign. My 'Pipeline Wave' drawing later became the start of my 'Waterworks Collection' for gallery prints.

John Van Hamersveld

#10. While the morality of slavery alone might have eventually led to a showdown, it was America's sprawling growth that made the issue explosive.

Robert L. O'Connell

#11. Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

Haruki Murakami

#12. When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.

Christiane Northrup

#13. In the inevitable showdown between speed and quality, quality must prevail.

Eric Schmidt

#14. Death stalked toward us on padded feet.
And it was not alone.

Melika Dannese Lux

#15. You notice things."
"A sexburger like her I notice." The tip of his tongue protruded between his teeth, which were a good grade of plastic.

Ross Macdonald

#16. There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

Barbara Mertz

#17. I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

Gene Luen Yang

#18. That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Brene Brown

#19. Forget yourself. Live for others. You will find your bliss.

Debasish Mridha

#20. My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

Sandra Bullock

#21. I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#22. You act like they're especially unholy or something.Are you trying to tell me that in the final showdown between evil and good, the weapons of choice will be guns and..cats?

Lia Habel

#23. The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

Kim Jee-woon

#24. Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

Henry A. Kissinger

#25. If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!

Andre Vltchek

#26. anyone who has crammed for a school exam knows how easy it is to misquote in a showdown.

Jack Lait

#27. Time for a showdown with her mutinous brewmaster. She'd tried nice. She'd tried all business. She'd tried cajoling. Now, it was time to try bitch with big brass balls.

Avery Flynn

#28. The climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same.

Madeleine L'Engle

#29. A man's duty? To be ready
with rifle or rood
to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Edward Abbey

#30. Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

Alain Badiou

#31. Armageddon (the final battle between good and evil; the word is taken from a plain near the Israeli city of Megiddo where the showdown is supposed to take place).

William P. Lazarus

#32. As I look through my box of photos, my eyes well up with tears as I hold in front of me, the one of my brother Spence when he was five years old. He looks so cute in his cowboy outfit, drawing his toy pistols as if he were having a showdown with nasty outlaws.

Terra Lorin

#33. Becks had a pistol in either hand, making her look like an illustration from some fucked-up pre-Rising horror/Western. Showdown at the Decay Corral or something.

Mira Grant

#34. We're heading for a world showdown, a worldwide confrontation. If we think we can solve our problems without God, then we're living in a fool's paradise.

Billy Graham

#35. Successful control means achieving a balance and avoiding a showdown where all-out force would be necessary.

William S. Burroughs

#36. They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.

Charlotte Church

#37. Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

Ted Dekker

#38. It is how you show up at the showdown that counts.

Homer H. Norton