Dynamited Quotes & Sayings

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings. — Diane Ackerman

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade. What rot! Surely everything that arouses people's minds, that makes them alert and questing, increases their appetite for books. - Roger Mifflin — Christopher Morley

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited. — Charles Bronson

I remember not having money, I remember having money, and neither had a bearing on who I was as a person. It affected how others saw me, but not how I saw myself. — Eddie Huang

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods. — Herodotus

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth. — Bryant McGill

You remember those twin statues of the Buddha that I told you about? Carved out of a mountain in Afghanistan, that got dynamited by the Taliban back in the spring? Notice anything familiar?"
"Twin Buddhas, twin towers, interesting coincidence, so what."
"The Trade Center towers were religious too. They stood for what this country worships above everything else, the market, always the holy fucking market."
"A religious beef, you're saying?"
"It's not a religion? These are people who believe the Invisible Hand of the Market runs everything. They fight holy wars against competing religions like Marxism. Against all evidence that the world is finite, this blind faith that resources will never run out, profits will go on increasing forever, just like the world's populations
more cheap labor, more addicted consumers. — Thomas Pynchon

The beaver dam had been constructed on the ruins of a man-made one, built by the CCC back in the thirties and later dynamited by an irate Finn who'd objected to the government's meddling with nature. — Philip Caputo

Tradition converts oddity into ordinary. — Toba Beta

Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without the stomach for it, but on and on and on, without relief, without release, without a hand to reach out and touch her heart. Without kindness or comfort. But on.
Forced into such poverty, imprisoned in such despair, there was only one thing she was sure she could do. She could survive. — Robert Goolrick

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. — Virginia Woolf

There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him. — Stephen Graham

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited. — Charles Bronson

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you. — David Clement-Davies

Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out. — Glen Hirshberg

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book. — Gillian Flynn