Top 233 Riot Quotes & Sayings

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

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.

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

Causing a riot is what I do best.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

I won a competition in primary school for my painting of Nottingham's Goose Fair; it was a riot of colour with glitter and sequins.

I don't care who gets in my way... I'm just gonna come right though and riot.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.

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

Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.

Well, the clown suit is a riot, too.

On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

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.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsals.

It can only sound one way with the Prodigy - vicious, banging and, yeah, incites a riot.

Samuel L. Jackson is such a riot. He's so incredibly normal, and he's a blast to be around. I can't even describe to you how he's just sort of everybody's crazy uncle.

Why do we have to have another riot?

I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn't have gotten 'The Riot Club' if I wasn't in England. I wouldn't have gotten 'Pride' if I hadn't done 'The Riot Club.' And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?

A riot is the language of the unheard.

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

I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

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

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

When a riot happens in a city or a town or a village, the man in charge of the place is held responsible, and the same thing has happened to Modi.

With the Germs, every night's a little mini-riot, bottles flying at my head.

What do you think would happen if we kissed right here, right now?" he asks, digging his hands into the pockets of his khaki pants, grinning right back at me. "I think it would cause a riot." "Well, you know me," he says, lowering his head towards me. "Causing a riot is what I do best." Santangelo approaches before Griggs gets any closer and pulls him away. "Are you guys insane?" he says, irritated. "It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians," I say, throwing his own words back at him.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.

While staging demonstrations against wrongs, please do not cross the line, and see to it that no situation is allowed to turn into a riot.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

I remember as a child listening to comedic musicals and thinking they were a real riot. I had pretty questionable taste in comedy.

Mother of mercy,"said Tovar."And that caused the riot?" "It's the other way around,"said Kira sheepishly."We started the riot as a distraction for the jaibreak." Tovar whistled."You don't mess aroud." P303

The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.

The majority of Russians considered Pussy Riot's stunt to be an act of religious hatred, rather than criticism against the close ties between the President and the Patriarch. So yes, in many ways their message was lost in all the noise. On the other hand, Pussy Riot chose a format that would make sure they would be heard. A silent protest would have failed, or perhaps even led to harsh punishment without much interest from the world around. So they chose a form that would be noticed. Who can blame them for that?

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

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

At one of the live events somebody had a sign that said 'If Eva Marie Is Here We Riot.' I thought that was pretty cool.

The spirits run riot in youth.

A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.

It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

For me, a good comedy town is filled with people on the verge of a riot. They need something to relieve the tension.

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.