Kicking Quotes - Page 10

• Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

  Stephen King

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “Christine”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Girl, Heart, Waiting

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• Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.

  Lisi Harrison

  Doors, Car, Heartless

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• I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Revolutionary Ideas

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• Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Hurt, Heart, Emotional

  Dorothy Koomson (2008). “My best friend's girl”

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• Fang let out a low whistle. "Anyone know that Amazons could ride a giant bird?" Ethon gave him a duh stare. "Those of us who fought them, yeah, we know. How you think they keep kicking our asses?" "Cause you're pansies. Everyone knows that.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Bird, Causes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.272, St. Martin's Press

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• Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Giving Up, Eye, Needs

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• To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.

  O.R. Melling

  Running, Lonely, Blessed

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• Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

  Cecelia Ahern

  People, Trying, Pace

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• What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, People, Mind Blowing

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• We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hilarious, Legs, Found

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• The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hilarious, Doors, Giving

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• Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dog, Morning, Mean

  "J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85". Interview with Thomas Frick, www.theparisreview.org. 1984.

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• A mate owned a Bryan Robson top. We were kicking about, and I asked if I could be Robbo for a while. My dad looked out and went ballistic. He wasn’t having his kid dragging the Gerrard name through the gutter. I thought we’d have to move!

  Steven Gerrard

  Dad, Moving, Kids

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• Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Destiny, Trying, Drag

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Feb 29, 2016

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• Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

  Bruce Lee

  Gun, Hands, People

  "The Pierre Berton Show", 1971.

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• One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

  Dana Gould

  Jumping, Long, Phrases

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• I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Teenage, Thinking

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• I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

  Geoff Johns

  Character, Epic, Thrones

  Source: www.ign.com

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• This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him—you kick him until he passes out—then beat him over the head with a baseball bat—then roll him up in an old rug—and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!

  Michael Scanlon

  Baseball, Bats, Cliffs

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• A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Flower, Men

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• Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

  Tom Stoppard

  Directors, Needs, Scripts

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• His [Rudolph Giuliani] marital life became unhinged with his wife kicking him out of the mayor`s residence of Gracie mansion. That he took up residence as a house guest in an apartment owned by friends of his.The friends were a loving gay couple. And that is the best thing I know about Rudy Giuliani.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Couple, Gay, Wife

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

  Megan Chance

  Writing, Years, Ideas

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night

  Robin Williams

  Night, Kicking It, Comedian

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