Knees Quotes - Page 12

• Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

  George W. Bush

  Godly, Blessing, Giving

  Address Welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House, delivered 16 April 2008, South Lawn

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Clothes, Perfect

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.134, Univ of California Press

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Come away with in the night
  Come away with me
  And I will sing you a song
  Come away with me on a bus
  Come away where they can't tempt us
  With there lies
  I want to walk with you
  On a cloudy day
  In fields where the yellow grass grows
  Knee-high
  So won't you try to come
  Come away with me and we'll kiss
  On a mountain top
  Come away with me
  And I'll never stop loving you
  And I want to wake up with the rain
  Falling on a tin roof
  While I'm safe there in your arms
  So all I ask is for you
  To come away with me in the night
  Come away with me.

  Norah Jones

  Song, Lying, Rain

  28 Copy quote

• The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, People, Praying

  5 Copy quote

• Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Rain, America, Snow

  33 Copy quote

• The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!

  Dai Dower

  Boxing, Sides, Killing

  6 Copy quote

• I guess we're all one phone call from our knees

  Mat Kearney

  Phones, Phone Calls

  Song: Closer to Love, Album: City of Black and White, 2009

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Children, Lovely, Purpose

  29 Copy quote

• I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.

  Kerry Cohen

  Hurt, Pain, Hands

  Kerry Cohen (2008). “Loose Girl”, p.253, Random House

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

  Robin Wasserman

  Powerful, War, Greatness

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.302, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Character, Ribs, Stories

  19 Copy quote

• I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Football, Growing Up, Hockey

  "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Doctors, Video, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Way, Praying

  5 Copy quote

• If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Eye, Elbows

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.86, Tuttle Publishing

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, “Where are all my friends?

  Kim Stanley

  Team, Hands, Support

  4 Copy quote

• Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

  Werner Herzog

  Athlete, Thinking, Degrees

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two names that jump right out to me they are Mariska Hargitay and Katie Holmes. Both of these women are incredibly talented, and also wonderful moms, they would be down on their knees right after a take to play with their kids. They’re beautiful women inside and out, and that’s what inspires me!

  Bailee Madison

  Beautiful, Mom, Kids

  50 Copy quote

• Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Notebook, Christian, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

  198 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard.

  Kristen Stewart

  Fighting, Dwarves, Hard

  4 Copy quote

• I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning to find them. And while you're down there thank God for grace and mercy and understanding. We all fall short of the glory, we all got plenty.

  Denzel Washington

  Morning, Fall, Night

  "Actor Denzel Washington Delivers Incredibly Passionate Speech About Faith, Hard Work and Life’s True Riches" by Billy Hallowell, www.theblaze.com. May 28, 2014.

  125 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Sports, Weekend, Play

  4 Copy quote

• When I want to feel sexy, I like to dance-even if I'm at home by myself in my knee-high socks sliding there like 'Risky Business'… my sisters and I, if one of us starts, we're all there in front of the mirror, dancing, and it's just obnoxious. I feel sexy when I do that.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Sexy, Home, Mirrors

  4 Copy quote

• Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

  Charlie Daniels

  Children, Ties, Killers

  53 Copy quote

• There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

  Charlie Daniels

  Running, Men, Gun

  7 Copy quote