Riot Quotations

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

Our wild boar shoot at our home in Germany is always a riot because we invite lots of friends. We spend the day out in the woods, but then we get all dressed up in long gowns to dance around in the evenings.

The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that goes ahead. We had a riot filming it.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.

It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don't riot when oil prices rise.

We have the riots we deserve.

When there's an elephant in the garden running riot and the householder starts flailing the air with a broom, you know it's not the mouse he's complaining about.

Whatever decisions are taken, there is no place for violence and riot and the incidents that we have seen over the last few days,

Just as Muslim newspapers the world over continue to print disgusting cartoons about Jews and then riot when very mild cartoons about Islam are printed, Hayes has a clear double standard. Here's hoping. Down with the Super Adventure Club!.

I think Pussy Riot is amazing. I'm honored that they were inspired by riot grrl, and obviously they're making history around the world.

The problem is that while wiping it out in our own backyard, we left it to run riot in some of the world's poorest countries. We shut the gate and forgot the millions behind it, dying, with no money for a cure.

We were invaded by police, border police, riot squads, horses. This is a provocation. It's a show of strength. They've entered private property illegally, and we're very upset that the government is using these kind of tactics to try to scare people.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters!

With so many things still to be explored with the causes of this most recent riot not fully understood, it seems to be a little premature to be thinking about extreme measures to control it,

We were playing Johnny Rivers' song 'Memphis,' when halfway through the song, the lights went out. I just kept playing. The producer came up to me and said, 'whatever you do, don't stop playing.' There would have been a riot or something with 150,000 people and it was hot, the Fourth of July.

An editorial cartoon should push boundaries and make people think. An editor who spikes a cartoon must have some clear grounds to do so. If it's going to incite a real riot -- and not just a riot on the Internet -- that would constitute strong criteria not to run it.

Texas Rangers are perfect for comic books. They're so larger than life. Their mission statement is to help out in situations beyond the scope of normal law enforcement. If they have to suppress a riot they send one guy.

After an American has been in a totalitarian country for several months, he is greatly relieved when he reaches home. He feels that bonds have been released and that he is free. He can speak above a whisper, and he walks relaxed and unguarded as though he were no longer being followed. After a recent trip I said to a neighbor, "It's wonderful to be back in a nation where even a riot may be tolerated.

You're going to have pushback from governors, county executives, mayors, fire chiefs, police chiefs all up and down the emergency-management structure who wonder whether the military will become a super domestic responder and who do they respond to, ... Who determines if a state can't handle a disaster? What if a riot happens in a major city? Does a mayor get a call that the 82nd Airborne has just landed in your city? We've got to talk about this.

They're still in riot gear and they are keeping everyone back,

They had a near riot in Miami, and they had to close a ticket counter in New York.

There was no use of the proper instruments of so-called riot control. This was pre-meditated murder of people shot by snipers. That escalates the situation to a very dangerous situation.

There was no use of the proper instruments of so-called riot control, ... This was pre-meditated murder of people shot by snipers. That escalates the situation to a very dangerous situation.

Not much has changed. There are cosmetic changes but the solution is to help those in poverty have meaningful employment, healthcare and quality of life. Until that happens, there could be a riot here at any time.

The natives were getting restless so to speak, it was very eerie. You could feel a riot building, the looting had already begun.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

The minister did not threaten us in any way. He didn't read us the riot act or make any similar kinds of comments of any threatening nature whatsoever.

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

I Predict A Riot / Sink That Ship

In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.

I suggest setting up a corps of specially trained European riot police that can work at an international level to de-escalate problems and, where needed, effectively quell violence.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot.

Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.

...the whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet...

The only riot I’m okay with is a zoot suit riot.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)