Gary Oldman

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

English Actor

Paula Cole

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.

American Musician

Jonathan Franzen

There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes that wall and basically says, 'Self-promote or die.' And that is a bad head for any sort of artist to be forced into.

American Novelist

Cullen Bunn

The great thing about writing 'Deadpool' is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.

American Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Italian Writer

Lord Byron

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

British Poet

Jean Rostand

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

French Scientist

Paul Auster

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

American Author

Judit Polgar

Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations.

Hungarian Celebrity

Fridtjof Nansen

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Norwegian Explorer

Demolish implies destruction with negative effects, often implying loss or sadness.

Negative Connotation

Demolishing a structure means removing it entirely, not just parts.

Complete Removal

Sometimes, demolishing implies making space for progress or new development.

Progress Implication

Demolish can be used metaphorically to describe a thorough defeat in competition.

Metaphoric Use

Using 'demolish' can emphasize the emotional effect of a defeat on the losing side.

Emotional Impact

Demolishing an idea means proving it completely wrong, often in debate or discussion.

Intellectual Victory

You use 'demolish' when presenting a very strong argument or evidence against something.

Strong Argument

Using 'demolish' about eating is casual and can add humor or exaggeration.

Casual Language

Saying someone demolished food suggests eating a lot or very quickly, more than usual.

Exaggeration Effect

 Crew - Oh, boy. All right, well the sooner we get to work, the sooner we get this done, right? - Let's do it. - So this is a small mock up of the structure you're going to demolish tomorrow. The only difference is, imagine you were standing on this, you're on the second floor of a building-- you're not on the ground. So you have the steel joints, which support the structure.

What is Selective...

 like in this case. You know, these days, you always get images during the winter, when they take the roof down, of people who have been there and said, "They demolished the building." No, they didn't demolish it, just when it goes down, the architecture almost disappears. Here's the building working.

Carlo Ratti: Architecture...

 demolishing all his preconceived notions and opinions to begin again from the foundations. All his knowledge had come from his sensory perceptions of the world. Same as you, right? You know you're watching this video with your eyes, hearing it with your ears. Your senses show you the world as it is.

How do you know you...

 But the leopard has to continually protect its prey during the daytime or else it will be destroyed. Once the vultures come down, they they just demolish a huge carcass in a very short space of time. The leopard was being persecuted by these magpies that would, that would sort of hop around it,

Chasing the Rare Snow...

 They were living like this with very poor plastic sheets in the park. So I proposed to rebuild. I raised -- did fundraising. I made a paper tube shelter for them, and in order to make it easy to be built by students and also easy to demolish, I used beer crates as a foundation.

Shigeru Ban: Emergency...

 in an article that said it was going to be demolished. And I assumed someone was working to preserve it or save it and I could volunteer, but I realized no one was doing anything. I went to my first community board meeting -- which I'd never been to one before --

Robert Hammond: Building...

 months later together now not two we got three so it keeps the turnout because that way is able to know where the other one is just look is just following it up and as I said before the tongue is very important to demolish lizards that's how

Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...

 Their faces broadcast their experience. And that's an important point, because when glass ages, you just replace it, and the building looks pretty much the same way it did before until eventually it's demolished.

Why glass towers are bad...

 can you help others in using theirs? And let's work to demolish the societal barriers that prevent people from fully devoting themselves to climate solutions. This is what I know.

How to Find Joy in...

 and this young man is named Allen Bullock he made the newspapers because he was said to have demolished a police