Puncture Quotes:

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Humble, Pins, Puncture, Pretension

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

- Navjot Singh Sidhu

topic: Congratulations, Two, Road To Success, Puncture

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

- Moss Hart

topic: Puncture, Reason And Logic

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Truth, Business, Mean, Puncture

Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.

- Octavio Paz

topic: Wall, Garden, Dust, Tedium, Puncture

I work best when people are here to puncture me

- Tom Bergeron

topic: People, Puncture

One of the big things that we wanted to do was trying to kick out a car window as you're driving after it's been shattered obstructing your view. I mean, that's - I can't count how many movies I've seen that in, and we just thought, you know, like, it could be funny if it just kind of goes wrong and this foot just kind of punctures through the window and gets stuck.

- Seth Rogen

topic: Mean, Views, Feet, Puncture

We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start.

- Paul Levinson

topic: War, Space, Age, Puncture, Admittance

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

- Wendy Wasserstein

source: Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

topic: Humor, Thinking, Desire, Pretentiousness, Puncture

The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

- Edward Hoagland

topic: Life, Disappointment, Loss, Obfuscation, Zest For Life

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press

topic: War, Self Esteem, Swim, Bladder, Puncture

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

- Molly Harper

topic: Home, Vacation, Iron, Cleavage, Cork

Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.

- Jenny Downham

topic: Reality, Numbers, Promise, Puncture, Bone Marrow

For the plain people of Ireland... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre.

- Eamon

topic: Two, People, Car, Tyres, Puncture

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Heart, Son, Parent, Spiteful, Puncture

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Fighting, Risk, Chess, Fencing, Puncture

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.280, Anchor

topic: Lonely, Hunting, Cells, Puncture

If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.

- Barack Obama

source: "President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2016.

topic: Mistake, Recovery, Cutting, Puncture

There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.

- Lucy Lawless

topic: Real, Vampire, Beverly Hills, Puncture

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.

- Danny Boyle

source: "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

topic: Cocoons, Actors, Agents, Puncture

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations”, p.126, Top Five Books LLC

topic: Book, Eye, Home, Puncture

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

- Sean Connery

source: "Sean Connery Learns 'The Chicago Way'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 21, 1986.

topic: Mexican, Mind, Tacos, Puncture, Mexican Food

I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

- Dave Franco

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Skills, Cards, World, Puncture

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

- Ian Holloway

topic: Men, Two, Car, Upstairs, Puncture

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

- Alain de Botton

source: Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.218, Penguin UK

topic: Achievement, Challenges, Ruins, Puncture, Pursuit Of Wealth

I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.

- Dan Bejar

topic: Reality, Thinking, Rocks, Puncture

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

- Moss Hart

topic: Moving, Humor, Self, Puncture

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

topic: War, Fighting, Clouds, Puncture, Airmen

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

- Martin Parr

topic: Photography, Fashion, Lying, Puncture

You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara) You don’t ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.93, Hachette UK

topic: Knives, Long, Dull, Puncture

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.

- Lee Krasner

topic: Necks, Kind, Used, Puncture

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

- Augusten Burroughs

source: Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.110, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Hate, News, Information, Puncture

There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Heart, Men, Feelings, Puncture

Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Daughter, Farewell, Opposites, Saliva, Puncture

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

topic: Rip, Greed, Luck, Puncture

For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks - accidentally - and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Suicide, Morning, Self Harm, Mutilation, Puncture

I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture. I'm quite sure of this. I think it's insane how many pictures have to be taken these days. We have to realize there's a level of documentation that's just chatter, it's noise, and beyond that, people who are truly documenting are going to have to find a way to puncture that.

- Ian MacKaye

source: "Ian MacKaye, D.C. Rocker’s Library Of Congress Lecture: The Most Interesting Snippets" By Will Wrigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

topic: Taken, Thinking, People, Constantly Thinking, Puncture

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

- James Ellroy

topic: Giving, Interviews, Chance, Puncture, Refining