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Quotes About Disruption

Art isn't a hawk making lazy circles in the sky. Beauty doesn't equal art, and it can't just be the world in a package. It's got to take the world and mess it up some. Add the artifice as a lens, right?
~ Samantha Hunt
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.
~ Samuel Butler
There's a demon named Kali; he loves slaughterhouses and gold. He likes to gamble and he likes to fuck things up.
~ Sara Gran
Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.
~ Kellyanne Conway
After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.
~ Hamza Yusuf
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
~ Kelly Lynch
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
~ Andrew Vachss
The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
~ Calvin Harris
The time is out of joint.
~ William Shakespeare
There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.
~ Allan Lichtman
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
~ Dick Wolf
Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.
~ Mark Kostabi
From time to time historians need to be shocked.
~ Peter Burke
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.
~ Bitsie Tulloch
Donald Trump is a pathological liar. We have never - our campaign does not believe and never will encourage anybody to disrupt anything. I would hope that Mr. Trump tones it down big time.
~ Bernie Sanders
I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.
~ Demetri Martin
Few men enjoy prolonged travel; it disrupts all habit and endlessly jolts all prejudice. Any tolerance shown to fanatics is immediately mistaken by them for sympathy with their cause. Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.
~ Mark Haddon
But you shoutet and you knocked those mixers off the shelf and there was a big crash.
~ Mark Haddon
Thinking the way you've always thought and doing things you've always done will only lead to more of the same. You need to be disruptive!
~ Mark Hyman
Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down.
~ Anthony Powell
A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If
~ Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER XVIII THE ATTORNEY'S FAMILY IS DISTURBED
~ Anthony Trollope
It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I unhinge.
~ Antonin Artaud