Bash Quotes

• The awards world can be ridiculous, but I'm not one to bash it. I love awards! When I've been nominated for Emmys and when I won my DGA Award, I couldn't have been happier. I always liked getting a gold star in class.

  Paul Feig

  Stars, Awards, Class

  "Q&A: Paul Feig". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2011.

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• I didn't realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. I've always just liked it, and I've always watched it and been into it.

  Andy Samberg

  People, Realizing, Snl

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.

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• I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Differences, House, Want

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• It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

  Guy Ritchie

  Fun, Writing, Keyboards

  "Revolver - Guy Ritchie interview" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Games, Racing, Balls

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• Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Brother, Doors, Grace

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.72, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Trying, Attention

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• Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.

  Karen White

  Hurt, Wall, Disappointment

  Karen White (2007). “Learning to Breathe”, p.255, Penguin

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• We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Winning, Teeth

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• All right, New York City! Welcome to Madison... Square... Jericho! And after tonight, when I become the true, undisputed Intercontinental champion, the Jerichoholics of the Big Apple will throw a celebration party that will make the millennium bash in Times Square look like my sister's seventh birthday party! It'll be a celebration so huge, so grandiose, so spectacular, that it will never, EEEEEEEEVER, be forgotten again!

  Chris Jericho

  New York, Party, Squares

  "Royal Rumble", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mad, Spiders, Bourgeois

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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• I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The demon pigeons went nuts. They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Italian, Air

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

  Alice Walker

  Husband, Thinking, Heaven

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction”, p.306, Hachette UK

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• So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!

  Stephen King

  Crash, Gardener, Nicholson

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• A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Two, Squash

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

  Joss Whedon

  Mind, Enough

  "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening

  Karen Hawkins

  Rocks, Mind, Three

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• His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

  Dave Barry

  Savages, Body, Clubs

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• I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

  Jenny Holzer

  Thinking, People, Support

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• Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Light, Shining

  "The Shining". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

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• Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of those all-out birthday bashes that girls like. Want to go?" ---------------------------------------- "No. Sorry." "Since it's a catered thing, at a restaurant, I'll pick you up at- what did you say?" "I'm sorry. I can't do it." ---------------------------------------- "You're busy?" "I just can't do it," I said.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Girl, Sorry, Party

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• In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

  Benjamin Carson

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.

  Clinton Portis

  Guy, News, Young

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• As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

  Vijender Singh

  Hero, Thinking, Guy

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• When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Want, Littles

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