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I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.
Lisa GardnerDeath is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.
Rosario Ferre...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.
Larissa IoneDo not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.
Karl MarxA movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom StoppardI had a crush Florence Henderson when I was younger, i would love to meet Marcia but I would prefer mom.
Danny TrejoThe only crush I have is on Chris Colfer. Iโm madly in love with himโฆ I just, like, I doodle in my prop notebooks, โI heart Chris Colferโ over and over and over again.
Lea MicheleI think that sexuality is only attractive when itโs natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something Iโd just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but itโs a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.
MarilynI like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
Gwendolyn BrooksMy first celebrity crush was Jonathan Brandis. I even got to talk to him on the phone. I wrote a fan letter, and he answered. Talk about a surreal experience.
J. LynnCrush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.
Bhagat SinghFor a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
Ellen WillisThey say that generally, rulers - dictators - tend to be short, like me. It gives them an inferiority complex; when they were kids, they wanted to be big and to crush the small, but they were small themselves. Lenin was short, Stalin was short, Putin...
Vladimir VoinovichThe fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.
D.T. SuzukiI was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
Natalie MerchantI think normative or binary lenses for seeing bodies often crush or delegitimize other felt physical experiences of being and desiring. I've found that such inadequate ways of understanding bodies can be - but aren't always - based on biological perspectives.
Jenny JohnsonLove, being in love, isnโt a constant thing. It doesnโt always flow at the same strength. Itโs not always like a river in flood. Itโs more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether itโs ebbing or flowing, itโs always there, it never goes away. And thatโs the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
Aidan ChambersWhat can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
Joseph AddisonI will devour you. I will lick your bones clean and crush them between my teeth. I will suck the marrowโฆโ โThatโs nice,โ Kate said. โThe shield.
Ilona AndrewsFrom a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.
Greta SalpeterI'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.
Tiny TimMine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.
David MasonSpread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption. Start a religion. Start your own nation, or buy one. Buy a bus. Crush it to pieces.
Peter SundeIf we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
Barack ObamaThe greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
Rabindranath TagoreThey lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.
Cormac McCarthyThe mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.
Jim CramerEthan couldnโt possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.
Sara ZarrWhen the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.
Lu Xunwealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.
Emma GoldmanShe'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.
Rick RiordanOh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.
John Kennedy TooleThe high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.
Lorna LuftInstincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.
T. D. JakesJessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.
Alexander LudwigThe fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.
Dietrich BonhoefferI'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.
Richard ShermanI will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?
Walter Bradford CannonChildren are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
R. Buckminster Fuller