Kicks Quotes - Page 27

• I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Mean, Comedy, Legendary

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I think that in America there is a new movement of underground movies that wants to kick the ass of independent films that they think whine too much.

  John Waters

  Independent, Thinking, America

  Interview with Jonathan Ross, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

  Morgan Freeman

  Book, Sleep, Vacation

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

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• I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Example, Bottles, Half

  Source: daggy.name

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• If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.

  Sonny Barger

  Lying, Down And, Ifs

  Source: nwo.media.xs2.net

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• No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Conquer, Accepting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I like those blow-up beds. "This becomes a full size bed in three minutes!" Well, a mattress kicks your ass. Zero seconds. "Yeah, but you can store this thing." You can store a bed, too - in the bedroom.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Zero, Humor

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• Every woman is multifaceted. Every woman has a switch, whether she's going to be maternal, whether she's going to be a man-eater, whether she has to kick ass, whether she has to be one of the boys, whether she has to show the guys that she's just as smart or smarter, she's just as talented or creative. Women suppress a lot of their sides.

  Nicki Minaj

  Smart, Boys, Men

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.

  Mark Cuban

  Sports, Winning, Games

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.

  Mark Cuban

  Ideas, Firsts, Steps

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wings, Fiction, Way

  Source: alibi.com

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• I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as a kid. If there are people out there that want to write, all you need to do is read 20 of his stories to get an idea what it takes to make a story kick over.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.

  Jay Rock

  Kids, Fighting, Worry

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Every dude in here has had a fantasy about Jessica Simpson. Here's mine: Jessica, hold your sister Ashlee so I can kick her in the throat.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Humor, Fantasy

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• You have options when it comes to abortion now. It's not like 1955 when you just had to kick her down a staircase and hope for the best... you feed her a tapeworm and hope it takes a left at the Y.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Humor, Abortion

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, 2004.

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• Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Children, Humor

  "Dylan Moran: What It Is". Video, 2009.

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• I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like "Bottled water! Haha, they're selling bottled water! ... I guess I'll try it. Ah, this is good, this is more watery than water. Yeah, this has got a water kick to it."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Water

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• I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Summer, Hurt

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• I'm going to be cremated from the neck down. And at my funeral, when people are talking about me, they have to hold my head. And then at the end, they have to kick me into the audience and the audience has to keep me up for at least three hits or you have to start the whole service over. No cradling it - I want legit sets.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Talking

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• Once I got my business degree I realized I didn't want to do business anymore. My passion started to kick in and say, "Are you really sure this is what you want to do with the rest of your life? Are you 100% positive?"

  Jay Ellis

  Passion, Degrees, Want

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• You can never look that tough in glasses. ... You never see somebody push up their glasses and say, "I'm gonna kick your ass."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Glasses, Looks

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• At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.

  Filo Tiatia

  Feet, Age, Balls

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• On the day of the game you get there quite early, about 10 o'clock for a 3 o'clock kick-off, because you do a little bit of filming early on. You need to meet the crew and they need to have time to get a cup of tea and all those things the crew like to do before they go out filming.

  Jill Douglas

  Games, Tea, Littles

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I wanted to be prepared and be strong for any unexpected challenges, so from the beginning I was doing kick-boxing. I was wearing a sauna suit everyday, I was wearing sea goggles, I was wearing gloves. I was trying to put myself through the worst condition ever and most of the training sessions I was puking up.

  Ray Park

  Strong, Sea, Boxing

  Source: collider.com

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• I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake looking. The cook books now look so much like magazines, you'll never make food that looks like that. I'd rather see it the ugly way than they way they do it now.

  Amy Sedaris

  Book, Color, Fake

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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