Demolition Quotes

“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Easter recognizes that I am living in a prison of my own making, and that God is in the demolition business.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“How long before the eaves gave way
to the sky, or the bathroom floor
was jack-hammered to bone,
while the trees outside were left
to redirect the wind?

How quickly the den must have become more kitchen
and bedrooms lost their privacy. I see the books
we’d packed up and moved years ago

under a pile of fresh rubble, still sending off dust—
titles stunned to a babble
in gold leaf.”
― Kristen Henderson, Drum Machine

“Astronomy needs to clean up its act and the first step in the right direction is the demolition of the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories.”
― Steven Magee

“Well, sir, who’s paying for the glasses you broke?”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Here a tower shining bright
Once stood gleaming in the night
Where now
There's just the rubble in the hole

from "White City”
― Shane MacGowan

“Darkness humbles and demolishes the people; it destroy any country”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Demolition derby
Duck tape works wonders”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“If I can stay alive long enough to see the demolition of the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), then I will consider my life to be complete.”
― Steven Magee

“The attacks were hymned by hagiographies and histories. In fourth-century France, St Martin, or so the Life of Martin proudly records, ‘set fire to a most ancient and famous shrine’ before moving on to a different village and a different temple. Here, he ‘completely demolished the temple belonging to the false religion and reduced all the altars and statues to dust’. Martin was no anomaly. Flushed by his success at the temple of Serapis, Bishop Theophilus went on to demolish numerous shrines in Egypt. Hagiography records such attacks not as dismal or even embarrassing acts of vandalism but as proof of a saint’s virtue. Some of the most famous saints in Western Christianity kicked off their careers – so the stories like to boast – demolishing shrines.”
― Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

“The demolition of the Space industry is on my RADAR.”
― Steven Magee

“Because Valentin Gjertsen is nothing special, except that he is especially evil. He's not a complete fool, but neither is he particularly intelligent. He hasn't achieved anything remarkable. If you want to build, you must have the ability to see. Vision. Demolition, however, requires no ability; it's mere blindness.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Thirst