Banging Quotes - Page 5

• I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

  Elton John

  Half, Want, Littles

  Interview With Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Couple, House, Parent

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• Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

  Darren Shan

  Wall, Vampire, Phrases

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• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  Malin Akerman

  Men, Rhythm, Know How

  "Malin Akerman: White House Home Wrecker?" by A.J.Jacobs, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Adventure, Doors, Behind You

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.211

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• Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Hair, Doors

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• You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wall, Eye, Thinking

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• I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Queens, Wall, Home

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• When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Passion, Home

  "Branson On Stalking Sartre, Joining The Mile High Club, And Marrying A Google Guy". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2008.

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• Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

  Michael Cunningham

  Stars, Silly, Moving

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.198, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something." I'm too startled to move. Is she going to tell on me, get me in trouble? Rochelle's gotten up; she's banging the toilet stall doors open one by one, checking to make sure no one's in there. When the last stall turns up empty, she gives Amanda an annoyed look. "What do you need this time of night?" Amanda smiles at me, then turns to face Rochelle. "A tampon

  Patricia McCormick

  Moving, Night, Doors

  Patricia McCormick (2000). “Cut”, Front Street Incorporated

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• Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

  Maureen Johnson

  Wrestling, Animal, Leisure Activities

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.16, Penguin

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• I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality is key. We're very good at organizing and discipline and patience, and patience is 50 per cent of editing. You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Believe, Thinking, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

  N.D. Wilson

  Rip, Turtles, Broken

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• [Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Laughing, Wranglers

  "Verotchka". Book by Anton Chekhov, February 21, 1887.

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• While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

  Theophilus London

  Cousin, Trying, Internet

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• Ever have that one friend who gets a Valentine's Day gift for their mother? Doens't that freak you out a little? It's like, 'I don't know how to break this to you but I think she's banging your dad!'

  Russ Meneve

  Funny, Mother, Dad

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• I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table...

  Emmy Rossum

  Thinking, Singing, Dinner Table

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 26, 2004.

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• If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

  Roger Ebert

  Kids, Eye, Imagination

  Roger Ebert (2012). “A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck”, p.375, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.

  Milton A. Rothman

  Space, Clouds, Mind

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• I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Zoos, Guitar, One Day

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• It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're banging the girl of your dreams and you're watching it right now.'

  Pete Wentz

  Girl, Dream, Mirrors

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• You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a constant chatter in our house, whether it's giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I love it. I love it. I hate it when they're gone. I hate it. Maybe it's nice to be in a hotel room for a day - 'Oh, nice, I can finally read a paper.' But then, by the next day, I miss that cacophony, all that life.

  Brad Pitt

  Nice, Hate, Next Day

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Banging techno grooves from the one and only Ben Sims. Around the time of this was written he had that tribal/funky techno sound that rocked the dancefloor. He was a favorite then and still is now.

  Trentemøller

  Sound, Sims, Groove

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