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He was my brother and I loved him a great deal. It was just an awful, awful mistake. We fed off each other and learned a lot from each other. (R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, speaking soon after River`s death. He later called River`s passing "the most shattering experience of my life.")

- River Phoenix

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn`t dirty and it wasn`t horrible and wasn`t shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.

- Andrew McCarthy

Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men`s fashion. How much can you do with men`s clothes?

- Calvin Klein

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

- George Orwell

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

- Atom Egoyan

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

- Andy Krochalk

Future shock (is) the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

- Alvin Toffler