Elvis Mitchell

The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

American Critic

Brianna Hildebrand

I am Brianna Hildebrand; I play 'Negasonic Teenage Warhead'. She is a 15 year old psychic - she reads the future - and she also is her own personal cannonball: she's a warhead. So she runs at things and explodes at them, and she's Colossus' sidekick.

American Actress

Jules Verne

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

French Author

Victor Hugo

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Rob Lowe

I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

American Actor

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Roman Royalty

Cannonballs are from earlier times when cannons were common in battles.

Historical Use

Cannonballs are often mentioned in historical or military discussions.

Military Context

Cannonballs are very heavy, symbolizing something with great impact or force.

Physical Weight

The swimming pool jump cannonball is fun and often done by children or to amuse others.

Playful Act

The goal is to create as much water splash as possible.

Big Splash

Used informally, especially in conversations about swimming or summer activities.

Casual Expression

Implies a very fast train service, often with fewer stops than normal trains.

Speed Implication

Refers to a specific, notable train service, not just any fast train.

Special Service

 He had this idea, a little mental You take a cannon, you put it on top of a hill. If you shoot the cannonball, it goes a little bit away. But if you shoot it harder, it goes far enough so that it lands a little bit past the curvature of Earth. Well, you can imagine if you shot it really, really, hard, it would go all the way around the Earth

Free falling in outer...

 candles we can determine how far away it is and how fast that galaxy is moving away from us so you might wonder ok so the universe is expanding but what happens after that what's next in this story it's a little bit like asking what happens to a cannonball when it's fired

Mapping the Unknown,...

 to a level and we found what turned out to be a cannonball and out of the cannonball there was a little coin and it turned out to be 1684 and then there was this trigger guard from a musket for me I knew at that time that I had found the widow I mean it wasn't enough

Barry Clifford: Pirate...

 But we're trying to avoid workplace drama, not take a cannonball leap into it, so we have to walk away. You lead that conversation by taking the first available exit. You're not doing this for them. You're doing this for you. You have to protect your energy.

5 steps to remove...

 uh came to lead doing confederations so you mentioned that chang-yi died in a piratey way so how did he die well he was either killed by a storm or by a cannonball we're not sure we're not sure but but he certainly haven't had the wind blow out of his cells

Queens of the High Seas...

 A leather mask that clamps the mouth shut. A cannonball sewn into a soldier’s uniform. And a machine that delivers sudden electrical pulses. These old items were all intended treatments for a problem that has haunted humanity for

Why do some people snore...

 doing the act they pioneered -- the Human Cannonball. But now they were like retired. That generation is all dead now, including Bonica, so there's no way to know exactly what they said that day. But still, I love imagining it.

Latif Nasser: The...

 So basically, what they did is, they went to a friend's swimming pool, and Frank performed a cannonball, or bomba. They placed an underwater mic and an overhead mic outside the swimming pool.

Everything you hear on...

 cannonball British and American missionaries used the yangtze to access the interior of the country

Christianity in China PIPE...

 They call you the human cannonball, but you’re really more of a pinball person.