Parenting Quote by Katharine Hepburn

What's the point of hitting pads, landing 10,000 punches, and then landing punches that are soft as feathers in the fight? I hit hard.

— Jessica Andrade

In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

— William Arthur Ward

I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.

— Maria V. Snyder

It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.

— Marshall McLuhan

At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they…

— Alice Sebold

Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

— Ted Williams

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No matter that we could be beheaded for this,” said Esa. “Heads are overrated.” “Yes, they are so unfashionable,” said Miri, imitating an Aslandian…

— Shannon Hale

If one puts a rope around his neck, many will be happy to drag him by it.

— Vikrant Parsai

Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off.

— Ryan Gosling