Punch Quotations

I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly.

I met Roger Ebert at an independent-film awards or something. And he said, 'When I saw you just now, I wanted to punch you in the face. And then I had to remember you're an actor. So, congratulations!' Those are my accolades.

The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.

I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch line.

My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.

For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.

I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can't say, 'Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.' You think you can, but you can't.

If a kid is being bullied at school, my advice to them is to punch the bully in the face. The government can create as many boards, commissions, and informational sessions on sensitivity that it wants. The fact is, we still have bullies, and we still have victims who are trained not to stand up for themselves.

When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second.

I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much green wash from politicians and big business. I was tired of the debate - the extremism, the nimbyism, the hair shirt. We need a constructive conversation about energy, not a Punch and Judy show. I just wanted to try to reboot the whole debate.

There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.

One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were doing everything they could politically to turn him into a punch line post-Chappaquiddick. And the idea of Ted Kennedy - rather than the actual man - dominated his political legacy through the early '90s.

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn't seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.

I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, 'Oh I'm the fat, funny one,' because that's what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.

What they might lack in skills they make up for in heart. They each keep on coming back against tough opponents and want to learn to get better. Both Sean and Brady have great stamina and are beginning to bob and weave and counter punch much better. Sometimes you can take a kid like Brady who has natural talent and move him up to take on fighters with a little more experience.

We knew they would want to punch us right away. We knew if we would play our style of game, we would be OK.

We wanted to throw the first punch and come out like we did.

We tried to come out and punch them in the mouth early. And they punched right back. They played an excellent game. They can win a lot of ways.

We hit with the first punch in the first half.

when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wall go talk to somebody or cry dont f**** up your hand

When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'

We live in a society where increasingly our eco-socio-politico education is presented by 'court jesters' such as Bill Maher, Howard Stern, Al Franken, et al. Just how low have we sunk when people require a punch line in order to examine any serious topic? It won't be long before the only requirements to become a school teacher will be a great stand-up routine and a colorful clown's wig.

We have a really good senior class. Every team has their 1-2 punch and they're ours.

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

When the name is a punch line in a Saturday Night Live skit, you got problems, ... I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Maggie and Erin have been a tremendous 1-2 punch and Taylor has stepped up to make some big shots. We're scoring a lot of points with our shooting and we've also been doing a good job forcing turnovers that have fueled our fast break.

learned about listening to yourself. You know the punch line but it has to seem as if you're going to find it.

She wasn't quite all there for me today. She wanted to do too much early. If I could have kept her bottled up early on, she would have had some more punch for the lane.

Signs of financial stress still are present. The persistent interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve and record high gas prices in the third quarter provided a one-two punch that continued to inflict pain on personal budgets.

Signs in the marketplace are showing it is not having the punch that it once had,

Most videos are about creating eye candy, a pretty image that can be a marketing tool. We just tried to show the simple truth of what's going on in his life. It's kind of a sucker punch when you see it the first time because we're not used to that emotional depth in music videos.

Matt (Weeks) can run. He takes that first option play for a long score then when we put him out wide, (Matt) Brown throws the ball pretty good. Brown ran the ball pretty decent tonight. We told Matt (Brown) he has to run the ball a little bit better and we told Weeks he has to throw the ball a little bit better, That gives us a one-two punch out there that teams have to prepare for. I think that's tough to stop.

My first reaction was to throw a punch because I thought he was going to come after me. You know what they say - whoever throws the first punch gets the win.

Net-net, given the sharp U.S. upward revisions to payrolls, for the euro to punch higher to fresh highs is nothing short of spectacular,

My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.

More importantly, it appears that the December quarter will lack the seasonal punch that Sun and others normally see, suggesting that the first signs of a recovery may not come until June,

More black voters than white voters had their ballots discarded, no matter what kind of voting system was used. Punch card ballots cheat voters, and they are much more likely to cheat African-American voters.

Nobody is going to be harder on Leslie than Leslie. Unfortunately, we don't have that low post player right now we can punch the ball into to get us started.

Navy came out like a house of fire. We took their first punch and responded. We did a very good job of picking up our defense and working harder to execute our offense.

On the mass communication level, the notion of keeping secrets has been devalued. One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it. But every time a secret is revealed, although there's some punch to it, we're whittling away at some of the psychological value of the secret.

I was really trying to get a ground-ball double play. But once I got to two strikes, my mentality changed over to try to punch these guys out.

I was pleased with the consistency of our first-team offense. We went right down the field. But when you're sitting at the one on first-and-goal, you want to punch it in, so we're disappointed in that.

If we get off to a strong start, we can be as good as anybody. Last year we started strong and it went downhill. When everything's going right, we can't be content and let our guard down. We can't let that next opponent punch us first, like what happened last year.

I have found in my years of being in business that we are all a part of a computer chip somewhere and you just need to know what button to punch and your entire life flashes before your eyes.

I don't know what's more frustrating, the initial punch to the gut of being defrauded or the lack of follow-up by my community, especially the people in power. You go to the people that are supposed to fight for you and they screw you, too.

I don't know much about the techniques of fighting, but I know throwing a punch on skates is a lot different than throwing a punch from the ground.

I couldn't make a putt today, ... I hit a lot of punch shots to keep it under the wind. But there's a lot of good competition out here and it just makes you better.

I always wanted to see why Captain America was on this team of Avengers. He's got to have a reason - he can't just be really fast and punch really hard.

But that's the nature of the game. Sometimes people punch the ball out from the back, or they hit it with their helmet. But it's nobody's fault but mine. I've got to hold on to that ball and squeeze it tighter.

Batavia has the ability to come out of the gates and knock you out. They've served the knockout punch several times in the first quarter and teams haven't been able to counter.

Because of the State of Florida, a number of changes in the voting law have gone into effect and as a result they have outlawed the punch card.

Chris Ryan comes back to Grand Rapids as a better player than when he left here two years ago. He brings an added punch to our red zone offense - with Ryan alongside Chris Avery we have the fiercest FB/LB corps in the AFL.

I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.

I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.

I hate we put the defense in a bind like we did. The opportunities were there. We just failed to punch it in.

I felt like if we could have delivered the knockout punch there, it could have been a long night for them,

Get the hell away from me before I punch you in the mouth.

I don't think people can watch University of Texas basketball or football games with me - really, anything Texas is playing - without wanting to punch me in the face. I'm as big a Longhorn fan as you'll find.

I go about composing like a factory worker. I punch in. I believe it's written somewhere "Steve Swallow has to sit uneasily at the piano for ten hours before receiving his next idea," so I sit there as patiently as possible. Eventually, an idea always comes, and then the rest is science.

I got a good shot, I just couldn't finish it. I was pretty much speechless. Luckily, my sister came over and calmed me down enough that I didn't do something stupid and punch the wall hard enough to break my hand.

He's grown up. He's mature. But he was tough. He could take a punch and get back up. Even four years ago, it was obvious he was going to be an outstanding quarterback.

He has got a heck of a punch on him and I wouldn't like his fist in the back of my head so I think it's best to stay away when he does that! He punches the ball in training and gets a lot of distance with them, some even go over the halfway line!

He has blinding hand speed and great dexterity. He can punch going forwards and backwards which is the mark of a true champion. There's no one like him in the world today.

He has to be more emphatic at times. He tries to counter punch more ? it works well against everyone except Roger,

He looked very good. The jab was really a key punch and it set everything up for him.

He might get close to 500. If we play long enough and get deep enough in the postseason, he could punch out 200 guys this year.

There is no food in Charity Hospital. They're eating fruit bowl punch and that's all they've got to eat. There's minimal water,

We talked about that. We said if we don't get it (on the pass), we're going to challenge you guys to see if you can punch it in. We did the same thing last week and scored and won the ball game.

We took a punch in the stomach and couldn't get back. You have to come ready to play. Some people came, and some people didn't.

I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.

He can take a story, compress it into nine or 10 words, and have a greater clarity and punch then when I write two paragraphs.

Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many kids. So, in situations of conflict, I quickly learned that it worked better for me to get out of situations or maybe kind of, you know, prevail in a conflict situation by using humour than by trying to punch somebody out.

Kind of a punch to the stomach. It was something that many of them might come and they dreaded it.

I think with Lauren and Kelsey we're going to have a nice 1-2 punch on the mound. We had to throw Lauren into the fire last year. She really grew up and continued to get better over the year. Kelsey throws hard. She seems to have five different pitches.

I was disappointed in that penalty. ... He made a mistake. He threw a rabbit punch in the pile. He was frustrated and he lost poise, and you can't do that.

I think we proved we can take a punch and still win in the end. You take 'em any way you can.

I think we're coming out and throwing the first punch instead of waiting back and seeing what our opponent is going to do. We've been coming out aggressive, very sure of ourselves, and we're just playing with a confidence and air about us right now that is just easy and contagious.

It had to be fast. These guys go quickly. You can't waste days on personal stuff. Those are the days I used to try to beat people to the punch and get in there. ... People have developed relationships with these kids, and you're trying to play catch-up.

I think (Tim) Doyle tried to be smart one time and say I should punch my hand through some glass or something. Needless to say, when I got the dunk I said something back to him.

I think we all kind of thought those would be the most fun, the fight scenes. And they were the most challenging. Physically exhausting and complicated and kind of very specific and intricate, so they just took a long time to film. I think that we all thought that we'd get to set, have a punch up and we'd get it on film and be wrapped, but it wasn't quite like that.

I was just trying to make sure the goalie didn't punch me in the head. I wanted to make up for missing in the first half.

I think they are beating Barnes and Noble to the punch in many cases, but they shouldn't be worth six or seven times Barnes and Noble. That's where rationality has divorced itself from the stock market.

I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.

It is a stunning exchange, I will say, by both sides so early in this campaign. When the first punch was thrown, Nancy and the campaign decided not to take it sitting down.