Hitting famous quotes
05-24-2025
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Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back
-- Adam Smith -
It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.
-- Adrienne Barbeau -
Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
-- Ally Carter -
Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.
-- Andre Agassi -
British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
-- Andre Maurois -
But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
-- Andrea Gibson -
But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Do you know how much power I have over you? Yes, you, the one just sitting there hitting the f5 button day in and day out!
-- Andrew Hussie -
You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.
-- Barbara Johnson -
I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.
-- Barbara Mertz -
There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run
-- Barry Bonds -
It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.
-- Bernhard Langer -
Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
-- Bill Walton -
I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.
-- Brooks Robinson -
It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.
-- Bubba Watson -
What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.
-- Bubba Watson -
I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
-- Carl Pohlad -
Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
-- Cary Middlecoff -
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
-- Casey Stengel -
Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
-- Casey Stengel -
Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.
-- Chase Utley -
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely
-- Christine Baranski -
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
-- Christy Mathewson -
Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.
-- Connie Stevens -
Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
-- Dale Murphy -
Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
-- Damien Hirst -
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
-- David Gest -
Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.
-- David Lyons -
Problems aren’t out there, whatever is missing is what you are not giving, and whatever crisis you are hitting is a call for more of you to come out, for more of you to emerge.
-- Derek Rydall -
I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.
-- Dick Stuart -
I'll be over there, shawty I'll be over there. I'll be hitting all the spots that you aint even know was there.
-- Drake -
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
-- Edd Roush -
It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
-- Eddie Mathews -
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
-- Eric Bogosian -
I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.
-- Florence Welch -
Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.
-- Garth Nix -
When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
-- Gary Cherone -
A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.
-- Gene Siskel -
There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.
-- George Foreman -
Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live
-- Geraldo Rivera -
The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories ; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.
-- Harriet Harman -
If you're going to get in trouble for hitting someone, might as well hit them hard.
-- Harry Styles -
I hurt my shoulder on the fifth tee - just hitting it too hard when you're too old.
-- Ian Woosnam -
You’re touching me,†I chided him. He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting every sensitive point I hadn’t even known I had. “No, this is touching you. That was just accidental contact.†“Oh? Good to know. If you touch me again and I break your arm off, you can be sure it will be completely accidental.
-- Ilona Andrews -
It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.
-- Jason Robert Brown -
I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.
-- Jay Haas -
I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it would have been against the spirit of a Frenchman.
-- Jean van de Velde -
To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions
-- Jeb Bush -
I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.
-- Jeff Thomson -
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
-- Jim Jarmusch -
When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.
-- Joe -
What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.
-- Joe Morgan -
I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.
-- Johnny Evers -
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
-- Jonathan Demme -
Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.
-- Joseph Kittinger -
She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.
-- Julian Critchley -
We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.
-- Justin Torres -
I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon
-- Karen Chance -
Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.
-- Ken Harrelson -
I'm always looking for that movie that feels like it's hitting me where I need it.
-- Kirsten Dunst -
It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.
-- Krista Allen -
I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.
-- Krista Allen -
Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.
-- Lana Del Rey -
This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.
-- Laurel Clark -
I'm hitting it better than last year. The putting is getting close now, too.
-- Lee Westwood -
Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.
-- Leonard Maltin -
I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
He could never see a belt without hitting below it.
-- Margot Asquith -
The best passing drill is pass - set - hit. The best setting drill is pass - set - hit. The best hitting drill is pass - set - hit... Anything less than a game situation, unless very well planned, has the possibility of introducing artificial situations, and complete transfer to the game might not occur when drills are constructed in this manner.
-- Marv Dunphy -
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
-- Mickey Mantle -
I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
-- Mike Schmidt -
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
No one is safe from Mattera’s hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism.
-- Monica Crowley -
It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible
-- Osama bin Laden -
There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.
-- Pete Sampras -
I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped.
-- Retief Goosen -
The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
-- Richard Paul Evans -
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
-- Russel Honore -
I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.
-- Russel Honore -
Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.
-- Sam Horn -
My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.
-- Saul -
I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
-- Sean Connery -
I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.
-- Serena Williams -
The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.
-- Stan Musial -
A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.
-- Stan Musial -
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'
-- Stan Musial -
Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.
-- Stan Musial -
Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?
-- Stephenie Meyer
