Busting Quotes

• How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Sleep, Night

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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• Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

  Don Sutton

  Good Luck, Effort, Best Of Luck

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• I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

  Vin Diesel

  Wall, Dark, Walking Away

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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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• Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

  Brad Gilbert

  Years, Guy, Twenties

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• And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Moving On, Believe, Doors

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• Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  "The Observer Effect". www.sbs.com.au. September 22, 2013.

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• According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn't get him. Unfortunately, he lost the laundry bag with your pants." "Dang it!" Frank Barked, which Leo figured was probably severe profanity for him. No doubt Frank would've cursed some more -busting out the golly gees and the gosh darns- but Percy interrupted by doubling over and groaning. "Did the world just turn upside down?" he asked. Jason pressed his hands to his head. "Yeah, and it's spinning. Everything is yellow. Is it supposed to be yellow?

  Rick Riordan

  Eagles, Hands, Busting Out

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• [The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting.

  Rob Lowe

  Fellowship, Way, Outsiders

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures.

  Denise Duhamel

  Letting Go, Writing, Lines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Travel, Real

  Song: Thunder Road, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a newspaper. You know what, how about we cool it with the freedom fries anyway you fat asses. We're the fattest country in the world. Have you ever walked around an American mall? It's nothing but chick fillets and Lane Bryant track suits busting at the seams.

  Tina Fey

  Country, War, Patriotic

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• A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.

  Kurt Voss

  Mean, Race, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Names, Guy

  "Paul Feig On Women: 19 Awesome Things ‘The Heat’ Director Has Said About Funny Ladies" By Lori Fradkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2013.

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• I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Busting Out, Mind, Stories

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• The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Hero, Heart

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ Welcome to the Hellmouth". DVD Commentary, 1997.

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• a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter of the working class. ... You think it's a coincidence that this union-busting low-wage retail empire happens to have generated a $65 billion family fortune?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Class, Retail

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• I grew up watching Grease, and Grease 2. I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. Id love the challenge now.

  J. D. Pardo

  Song, School, Busting Out

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• You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Wall, Home

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #4: Bust Up Wall Street" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

  A.S. King

  Life, Rain, Thinking

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• Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Hacking, Beloved

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• The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Timothy Leary

  Tree, Jehovah, Fruit

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• Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.

  Michael Parenti

  Teaching, Political, Unions

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.122, City Lights Books

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