Kicks Quotes
822 quotes by 666 authors
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
— Raymond Chandler
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Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at…
— Charles Dickens
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My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months…
— Sarah Dessen
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I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked…
— Augusten Burroughs
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A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off with…
— Nick Hornby
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Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel…
— Steven Morrissey
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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks…
— Voltaire
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You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables…
— Haruki Murakami
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Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder.…
— Nora Roberts
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This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face…
— Henry Miller
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Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and…
— Larry McMurtry
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Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
— Jack Kerouac
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Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt…
— Nicole Krauss
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The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors…
— Sarah Dessen
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I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a…
— Cole Porter
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The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had…
— Mark Helprin
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
— Anne Lamott
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Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He…
— Libba Bray
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