Hitting Quotes - Page 17

• The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down.

  John Green

  Fall, Fists, Hassan

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.166, Penguin

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• A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Thinking, People, Hitting Bottom

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• You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Winning, Games, Balls

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• He’d actually hit me! It didn’t matter that hitting me wasn’t really like hitting a regular girl and I’d be completely healed in a matter of hours. I was still a freaking girl, and he damned well knew it. I’d just have to hit him back. With a lead pipe. Or an eighteen-wheeler.

  Darynda Jones

  Girl, Matter, Hours

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.136, Macmillan

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• So, you’re hitting on Clare the Fair.” “I’m not hitting on her. I’m exploring the possibility of seeing her on social terms.” “He’s hitting on her,” Owen said around a mouthful of chips. “You’ve still got that thing you had for her back in high school. Are you still writing bad song lyrics about heartbreak?” “Suck me. And they weren’t that bad.” “Yeah, they were,” Ryder disagreed. “But at least now we don’t have to listen to you playing your keyboard and howling them down the hall.

  Nora Roberts

  Song, Writing, School

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Next Always”, p.66, Penguin

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• I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon

  Karen Chance

  Moon, Chance, Used

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• I think Bob appreciated my outfit. He made me buy the more expensive pendant. You might think that was to my disadvantage, but I accept that status comes with a price.” “Not usually so immediately.” I shake my head. “You better not be hitting on federal agent ladies. They’ll arrest you.” His grin widens. “I like handcuffs.” I groan. “There is something seriously wrong with you.” “Nothing that a night being worked over by a hot representative of justice couldn’t fix.

  Holly Black

  Night, Thinking, Justice

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• And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Orange, Tree

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Amazing.” Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. “Score one for your honker.” “Thanks, I think.” I cocked my chin at Hi’s substantial midsection. “Nice abs.” “Yeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, it’s embarrassing.

  Kathy Reichs

  Nice, Thinking, Work Out

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• I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Home, Opening Up

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.187, Penguin

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• Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

  Ally Carter

  Hurt, Fists, Belief

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• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

  Iain Banks

  Cutting, Trying, Stuff

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• There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Men, Differences

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• We keep waiting for the American people to wake up, and they keep hitting the snooze bar. But something, folks, someday, will wake them up. Of that I'm confident.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Waiting, Bars

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• I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

  George McGovern

  Europe, Oil, Tanks

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• When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

  Bill Murray

  Men, White, Feet

  "Old stone face cracks". Interview with Garth Pearce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

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• Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

  Stan Musial

  Swimming, Never Forget, Forget It

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• A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Swings, Ideas

  The Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September, 1988.

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• I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Opposites

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• My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Two, Wife, Kind

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• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Folks

  Speech at the CBC Foundation gala, thegrio.com. September 24, 2011.

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• 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

  Actors, Instinct, Used

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Ditching Harry And Becoming A Man". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

  Jerry Lewis

  Country, Pain, Cancer

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• I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, People, Important

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• I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

  Randy Houser

  Change, Believe, School

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