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  • In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

    Running   Facts   Used  
  • A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

    "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
  • The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

  • When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.21, Booklassic
  • Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

    "Namaste & Conversation : Interviews With Kenny G and David Benoit, Plus Downtown Struts and Sara Jackson-Holman Exclusives". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.
  • The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper, and Agent Orange. Nor is the trend new: From the past we have Mustard Gas, Angel Chasers [two can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)

    Angel   Past   Impact  
    "The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects".
  • A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

    Jesus   Light   Two  
    Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult
  • When you think of diversity, George Duke fits that bill better than a lot of people. He's played a lot of straight-ahead jazz with people like Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley; he's played a lot of fusion with his own groups, with Stanley Clarke; and, you know, he did the rock thing with Frank Zappa. He's written all kinds of big arrangements for people like Burt Bacharach. So, he's covered the board. He's still a great pianist.

  • Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

    Break Up   Lying   Fall  
    "Song: 'Cannonball'". 2002.
  • Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

    Flying   Burritos   Wells  
  • Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

    Fun   Exercise   Fit  
    Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

    Humorous   Men   Caliber  
    George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
  • There are 400 to 500 people north of the Cannonball River in the contested zone, in the treaty zone, in the place where, according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, we are not supposed to be. And they are going to stand their ground.

    Army   Rivers   People  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • One thing I did pick up from Cannonball Run was the use of bloopers and outtakes under the final credits, which I've done in all my movies since.

    Running   Finals   Use  
  • The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.

    Running   Pride   Bridges  
  • "Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."

    Song   People   Lasts  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

    Peace   War   Names  
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