Nick Hornby Quotes

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance

I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

A lot of people are upset when you work out your anger issues, but there's a big industry for music which is furious and angry because, in my opinion, the world is looking for a justification to feel the same way.

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, 'What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.'

so people really do tear out their hair and beat the ground with their fists

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

I'm not a table-flipper.

I love smashing stuff.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.