Smashing Quotations

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!

I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.

I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.

The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.

We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants will say: 'You won't believe this, but people were once allowed to hurl a couple of tons of dangerous metal around smashing into each other.'

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

When I finally realized how it has affected my life, I felt like smashing it, throwing it out the window. Now my compulsion is to try and understand what I've done to myself and my family.

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

I am disappointed for him. He is a smashing young lad, with a great future ahead of him. But he is of an age where he will get over it and come back stronger.

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

I don't think we will be taking that any further now. I believe he has a smashing offer from Lille on the table and it also came into consideration that he has been out of action for a year.

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

If the FBI's motivating factor for busting down the Koresh compound was child abuse, how come we never see Bradley tanks smashing into Catholic churches?

He just struggled all night long. They weren't smashing balls all over the place. They hit some balls off the end of the bat and they found some holes.

It could get ugly early. The next thing you know they're smashing us, and then guys are really thinking about going home.

I went and looked out my door and he's got a big old brick banging and smashing my windshield in and I opened my door and yelled at him, 'hey!' but he just looked crazy so I slammed the door and locked it, called 9-1-1 and I went for my gun.

Robert is a smashing player and we need someone of his quality and experience at the club.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

We have spoken to Paul and his agent and are getting closer. He's a smashing player and a great character in the dressing room too. He simply enjoys his football.

We wanted to make an album that sounds like our band, and not a heady, self-conscious studio project. Everyone tells us rock and roll is a shadow of itself--a sad old milk cow smiling at the farmer every morning. We still see a bucking bull smashing around the stable.

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

You have to be very strong to work with Jeffrey. He's like a pendulum, swinging back and forth, smashing things as he goes. Neither of us were afraid of confrontation, but we were always able to do it without insulting or disappointing each other. If you push back at Jeffrey, he'll say, 'OK, show me.' And if you're right, he'll be the first to acknowledge it.

To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply.

The prisoners first connected five of the prison's 14 cells by smashing large holes through the walls that separated them. Then, they gathered in one of the cells and crawled through a tunnel that they apparently had been digging for weeks, if not months.

Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.

As a rule, traffic pretty much takes care of it and eliminates the problem, with the cars running over it and smashing it around. If we would happen to see it, and I have a crew out cleaning the streets, they would clean it up.

Bands today -- they're lost in specifics. They just do one thing and that's it. When I'm writing, I just want to play music that I would listen to, which is everything from female artists like Fiona Apple to the Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana. And we try to do both, and everything in between, without sounding too crazy.

That's not going to happen. I don't know the story on Smashing Pumpkins. From what I can tell, they're not available.

They ran right into the doors, smashing them in.

It's a smashing club and the response I've got from people has been very positive. Clive is a world class coach in a different sport. He's looked at different sports but any football club is a team working together, not an individual. Being able to work with Clive can only help me and Southampton.

For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive the Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams. In this desire I feel I have come home again.

It was a battle of a game. This one was like looking into a mirror and smashing into yourself. I love the Lynn Classical program. Gene's a great guy. I've been a fan of the program since Helen Ridley played.

I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'

They want incendiary reactions. Why be a real journalist when you can call Alec Baldwin a moron and get a good photo of him smashing your head?

They want incendiary reactions, ... Why be a real journalist when you can call Alec Baldwin a moron and get a good photo of him smashing your head?

I love watching 'UFC' - Ultimate Fighting Championship - I don't know why, because I'm more of a coward than a fighter, but I seem to be very drawn to these blokes actually smashing each other to bits.

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

I am absolutely over the moon and hope it gives the supporters a real boost. He is a smashing kid. He is a good player and he has lots of experience. He is so keen to join us. He has turned down an absolute fortune because he wants to come here and play for us.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

The industry is moving more toward an industrial tech manufacturing model, one that is run-rate oriented. We can see this in the tightness of capacity utilization and in the incremental side of capital spending. There's a smashing together of the electronics boot chain all the way from the equipment supplier to the content provider, as companies figure out ways to get a share of the wallet out of the consumer or corporate hand.

All three projects for Nintendo reveal Smashing Ideas' flair for creativity, and ability to engage young, tech-savvy computer users. They're outstanding individual projects, and even when viewed separately, easily discernible as the work of Smashing Ideas.

I love smashing stuff.

The market is hungry for spectacular impressionist works as the smashing results for paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and Monet indicate.

I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.