Dashed Quotations

I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

We knew the whole off-season what we were working for, it wasn't just dashed in the first game.

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

They (defense stocks) are above normal prices, but that is based on above-normal expectations. If those expectations are dashed by one or two companies, they are certainly going to feel it in their stock prices.

Hopes that manufacturing could build on the momentum established at the turn of the year have been dashed by a decline in the rate of output growth.

Any thoughts that the Fed may end the tightening process are likely to be dashed and that will probably support the dollar.

The bottom line is clearly the Fed has dashed the hopes of a hiatus after this January increase.

It's another case of euro-optimism being dashed by events,