Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.
Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
Let's make a dent in the universe
Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.
Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.
Humans need to feel effective - to feel that we can "make a dent," as he puts it. So the art of living is to find expressions appropriate to our own uniqueness in which we can experience effectiveness.
Criticism. . . makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
I want to make a dent in the universe.
It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.
[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.
