Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

Philip Ruddock

It is unacceptable that people who are able to pay a people-smuggler and make their way through several countries where they may avail themselves of protection, are getting a more favorable outcome than people languishing in the most appalling circumstances in refugee camps around the world,

Gene Bauston

Force-feeding birds to have livers up to 10 times their size is appalling and most citizens are shocked to learn this.

Helena Carter

There was a strange silence from him for a while, ... But that's rather nice. You need to have some objectivity sometimes. I have to be right for something, otherwise it would be appalling if I just got a part because I'm sleeping with the director.

Paddy Ashdown

Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.

Tessa Jowell

It would be completely inappropriate in view of this appalling tragedy,

Nigel Dodds

This is an odious and appalling attack on ordinary people,

Arjun Makhijani

This is appalling that the National Cancer Institute did not make this available as soon as possible. It's been too long sitting on this.

Karen Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

George Machado

When we dropped to 2-4, we knew we needed to win our last three games to qualify. We won the first one last week. But this week we're playing a better team, so we have to play even better.

Jay Wright

When we did it in the NCAA Tournament, it was kind of dropped on us. We didn't have a lot of time to prepare. I feel good that we have a little more time to prepare and play that way.

Chuck Anderson

We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at all. He's an unbelievable athlete.

Luciano Spalletti

It's a shame we dropped so many points at the start of the season. At least we're making them up now.

Daryl Poole

They must have forgot about me. I was running the point, then I dropped back because Brandon wanted to run the point. I was wide-open right there.

Terry Norris

They dropped three of us off and said, 'Make us a prison,'

Michael Kinderman

They dropped into a zone, so they left me open and I just kept shooting and they kept going in.

Denzel Washington

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

Charles Manson

All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you.

Che Guevara

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.

Beverly Lewis

Courage is fear on its knees.

Vance Wilson

Ultimately, he's got to pitch at the knees and then go up in the strike zone. His motor runs pretty high, and he wants to pitch up early.

Diane Ackerman

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Robert Ingersoll

And we are called upon to worship such a God; to get upon our knees and tell him that he is good, that he is merciful, that he is just, that he is love

Adam Savage

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Don Murphy

We felt, in our organization, that it was better than to go and knock down trees,

Sheryl Neff

We're just knocking on the door, but can't quite push through. We're struggling a little bit.

Richard Zurek

It's just going to knock your socks off when we get these instruments opened up at Mars.

John Stephens

They knocked us out of the tourney two years back. That's always sort of in the back of your mind.

Bob Scott

They got some looks tonight, and they just didn't make them tonight. Any other night they probably knock some of those shots down.

Steve Rodriguez

They got knocked down, but they got back up.

John Edward

They have always lived on a razor blade, ... The problem is it doesn't take much to knock them off.

Jerry Wainwright

They don't get knocked out. They go the 15 rounds.

Arno Kirchenwitz

They were late rotating to her and she knocked them down.

John Stephens

They knocked us out of the tourney two years back. That's always sort of in the back of your mind.

Steve Rodriguez

They got knocked down, but they got back up.

Jerry Wainwright

They don't get knocked out. They go the 15 rounds.

Arno Kirchenwitz

They were late rotating to her and she knocked them down.

R. Ingram

It is true, when you get knocked out you go golfing.

Danny Nee

It's not how many times you get knocked down; it's how many times you get up.

Jon Groth

It was a tough play. The wind knocked it down.

Ryan Appleby

That three-ball kind of knocked them out there.

Adam Stern

You're stunned, you wonder if you actually knocked yourself out. I've never run into a tin wall in the outfield.

Lesley Nicol

My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.

Greg Cipes

I don't watch TV. Only while I'm doing it do I see it, really. So I don't know anything. I only know old reggae artists. So that's my thing. Old reggae artists and martial arts.

Wong Kar-wai

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

Katheryn Winnick

I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Kunda Dixit

For him to even acknowledge there was a people's movement, that really shocked me.

Bill Gottschalk

They're amazed. They are always shocked when they walk in here.

Paul Dwyer

Right now, we're shocked and very saddened over everything that happened.

Jennifer Aniston

The world was shocked and I was shocked.

Gary Bongiovanni

You're not getting (Madonna), but Fresno is. It shocked me as much as anybody.

Pat Gillick

We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.

Kenneth Darby

Brodie kind of shocked me today. All I could do was just smile.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

P. G. Wodehouse

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

Muhammad Ali

I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.

Larry Holmes

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.