Quotes of Thump - somelinesforyou

“ Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones. ”

- Richard Bandler

“ We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories. ”

- Orville Wright

“ Take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves. ”

- Unknown

“ It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation. ”

- Don King

“ Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers? ”

- Mark McGwire

“ The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last. ”

- William Penn

“ When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence. ”

- Charles Buxton

“ Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it. ”

- Louis L’Amour

“ If you don't throw it, they can't hit it. ”

- Lefty Gomez

“ See the ball; hit the ball. ”

- Pete Rose

“ When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray? ”

- Ethel Barrymore

“ There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit. ”

- Hank Aaron

“ I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? ”

- Jackie Kennedy

“ Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail. ”

- Clive James

“ The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it. ”

- William Cowper

“ I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. ”

- Joy Baluch
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