Banging Quotes

• During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

  Emma Thompson

  Jobs, Party, Election

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• The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

  Mark Twain

  Opera, Belief

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

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• What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

  Larry Wall

  Wall, People, Sound

  Usenet article, 1992.

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• It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Able, Ifs

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• I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

  Jane Birkin

  Fun, People, Wish

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

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• When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

  Deborah Kerr

  Sensitive, Young, Grows

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

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• I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

  Branford Marsalis

  Thinking, Doors, Needs

  "Branford Marsalis: It's All About The Band". Interview with Russ Musto, www.allaboutjazz.com. January 12, 2005.

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• I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

  Don Henley

  Blessed, Voice, Sitting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Way, Banging Your Head, Ifs

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• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

  John McEnroe

  Wall, Fun, Life Lesson

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• I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

  Robert Wyatt

  Respect, Men, Rocks

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• Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!

  Burt Ward

  Night, Next, Window

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• I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Swings, Iron

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• Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

  Banksy

  Smile, Art, Graffiti

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• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

  John McEnroe

  Loss, Optimism, Important

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• You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

  Banksy

  Art, Creativity, Mind

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• I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

  Little Richard

  Piano, Good Times

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• This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Dark, Acting, Nails

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• Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.

  Donald Glover

  Wall, Writing, The End Of The Day

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

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• I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

  Jessica Cutler

  Doors, Want, Irs

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• I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that

  Armand Assante

  Hollywood, Film, Enough

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• Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Song, Writing, Hammers

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• I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Cry, Enjoy, Humour

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

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• Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Guitar, Bass

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• Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. .

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Wall, People, Mad

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