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Quotes About Disruption

Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore. Broken bones and blood and gore, my fair lady. "We don't have no school no more, school no more, school no more. We don't have no school no more, my fair lady.
~ Louis Sachar
Every world-destroying project disrupts something intimate, tangible, and Indigenous
~ Louise Erdrich
Worst wheel on the wagon makes the most noise.
~ Ronald Reagan
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
~ Ronald Reagan
Destroying the systems destroys the chaos.
~ Ronald Sukenick
Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.
~ Salman Rushdie
They like the making of mischief, mayhem, anarchy. They have traditionally lacked management skills.
~ Salman Rushdie
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
~ Jack Welch
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
~ Sam Walton
Everyone said it was the earthquake; it disrupted atoms in the air, bringing out the worst you had hidden inside.
~ Alice Hoffman
The great growling engine of change – technology.
~ Alvin Toffler
We are moving swiftly into the era of the temporary product, made by temporary methods, to serve temporary needs.
~ Alvin Toffler
Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I must protest!' barked Lorsen. 'If you must, you must, but I won't be able to hear you with all this noise.' 'What noise?' Cosca stuck his fingers in his ears. 'Blah-lee-lah-lee-lah-lee-lah-lee-lah…!
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sometimes,' he murmured, 'the only way to improve something is to destroy it, so it can be rebuilt better. Sometimes, to change the world, we must first burn it down.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Fuck narrative elegance.
~ Joe Hill
It was impossible to have a conversation in a room with a phone. It was like having a conversation in a room with a bat hanging from the ceiling. Even if the bat was asleep, how were you supposed to think about anything else or look at anything else?
~ Joe Hill
You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble. "Why?
~ Joe Hill
Every so often, the universe must just get bored and decide to really cut loose.
~ Joe Schreiber
I break into heterosexual houses so I can masturbate in their heterosexual kitchens
~ Joey Comeau
Tyler seriously considered fabricating an outbreak of salmonella in the hors d'oeuvres and an impending locust plague, either of which would require everyone to leave now.
~ Joey W. Hill
Cat Among the Pigeons
~ Johann Hari
Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.
~ Tom Robbins
The status quo sucks.
~ George Carlin