There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.
I love smashing stuff.
Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.
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.
After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.
The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.
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.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.
I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.
It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.
I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.
When I was in WCW I came out the back and found six fellas smashing my car up - that was a nice interaction, I had to run all them off.
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.
At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.
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.
One time in Ecuador, fans actually surrounded the car we were in and started smashing the windows.
I want to be 'Jimmy Chamberlin, the drummer, the musician who's done many things,' not just 'that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins.'
There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.
I think we are smashing it as a government in terms of economic performance and infrastructure spend, but not everybody feels part of that success story.
If I spend time visualising smashing someone, it's good to a certain extent. But when I overdid it, it put me under pressure.
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.
Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.
You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.
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 got a guitar when I was 14. I made really, really, really bad music as a teen. I learned to play Smashing Pumpkins and Hole songs.
Men are trained to like this version of womanhood, and when someone comes along smashing the table and messing up the party, it's a bit like, 'Get out; why are you disturbing the peace?'
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
Smashing heads does not open minds.
You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.
I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
Respect to the Smashing Pumpkin the Black Key and the King of the Leon. They all have the real heart and work to make the people happy.
I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.
The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.
In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
We like smashing genres into each other, so if you can find something that's really idiosyncratic in respect to superhero genre and you can smoosh it into it, you usually wind up with something fresh and different.
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.
Smashing Pumpkins has never been a band about hit songs.
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.
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
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