Chin Quotations

I've been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with, and I dove into my black-bottomed pool and hit the slope from the shallow end to the deep end. And I had a chin to chest paralyzing break.

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

We are seeing a lot of people still putting debris out and that will be on the city's chin to pick-up.

Until the last out was made, I was confident we were going to win and so were the kids. I didn't see one kid drop their chin during the game. These kids just kept coming. If this thing had gone 10 or 11 innings, we'd have gotten them.

We didn't take it on the chin quite so badly. We take advantage of the fact we're here in Silicon Valley and we dig.

When I'm tired, my chin goes up and that's something that I need to work on. I need to get more mentally tough. (Wallace) has been on me about it since my freshman year.

We've never backed down from playing anyone. We've played a lot of great teams. But we never took one on the chin like that. (Wyoming Area) was a much better team than us.

There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

Silence. She has probably overcome the challenge that comes with the flat chin -- black-and-white thinking.

Of course it was embarrassing. You're not supposed to get beaten like that on national television. We have to take it on the chin and come back.

Nobody has hit him on the chin, ... He usually gets to their chin first.

Politically he has to improve his fortunes or his party might well take it on the chin come next November.

I would have thought I got a good response from the players. I can only be myself and whatever has come my way I have taken on the chin and got on with it.

I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.

He was throwing lazy jabs at me with his chin up. I stepped in with my jab and fired a right hook, then a straight left and it landed on the button.

He looked around, he looked ahead and he could almost see the opening at that point he could almost smell the barn and I noticed his stroke picked up and he got past that one moment that all endurance athletes have to go through. He put his head down, he tucked his chin and did it,

The people taking it on the chin are the people at the bottom.

We're proud of the way the kids kept their chin up the whole time. We don't look at our record, but our goal was to be the best team we could at the end of the year.

We took one on the chin (in Carolina) and we accept that. There's a lot of room for improvement with everybody on the team. It has to start this week.

We took it on the chin a lot last year. From what I'm seeing, we're showing a lot more poise.

He's got fantastic hand speed and a fantastic jab. Joe showed what a true warrior he is. He has got a great heart and a great chin and I can't tell you what a fantastic performance that was.

He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was nothing. In fact, it got me mad.

I think the market here is a little undecided. Technology stocks seem to be taking it on the chin again.

I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie, because it's rooted in reality. The characters are more real; they're not these superhuman people who can fly and do things.

Jan's not finished. He starts slow and he's a tough guy who doesn't give up. He might have taken one on the chin today but he always comes back and is strong in the last week.

Jan's not finished, ... He starts slow and he's a tough guy who doesn't give up. He might have taken one on the chin today but he always comes back and is strong in the last week.

Some of the blue chip tech stocks, especially the Internet stocks, as we all know, have really taken it on the chin this year. So if you want to play the technology sector, you should stay with the ones that did not make warnings going forward, as did the Amazon or Nokia, so stay with those.

I think people expected Palm to carry the day. When 3Com took it on the chin a little bit, people were disappointed and started to take some profits.

It is desperately frustrating. But we have no choice but to take it on the chin and move on.

When you're guarding him, it's like pushing a wall for 48 minutes or however long you're in there. He really tries to lean on you. I just tried to do a good job pushing him and make him shoot over me. Whenever he's going to turn to the basket, just stick my chin there or my chest, and hold my position.

We?re not going to hold our heads down because it?s a long season. We still have a lot of work to do. We took one on the chin and we accept that. There?s a lot of room for improvement with everybody on the team. It has to start this week.

When the price of Coke goes up, you can say, 'That's too bad; I'll buy Pepsi.' But you can't do that with gas. We have to take it on the chin and pay it.

Wall Street is sliding and Mexico is taking it on the chin as usual.

We knew we had to beat Central coming in but at this juncture you have to be able to score goals. Hopefully they'll have their chin up and be ready to play on Tuesday.

We were very poor, this is a huge blow but we've got to take it on the chin

We kind of took it on the chin for a few years. But this is two in a row now and I think it shows a change in the quality of wrestlers in Metro-East has now.

The resolution is not perfect, but it is a compromise that can be accepted by all UN members, so Chin a hopes it can be adopted.

I see us on the threshold of a great economic boom in most of our markets. I see our balance sheet growing. I see viable loans grow. I see customers who have taken it on the chin get right back up and are going to work.

Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

Oil companies will take it on the chin today.

You want a two-stroke lead going into 18. If you get it into the wind, you'd better snap on the chin strap. It's going to be pretty darn tough.

They took one on the chin too, so they're going to be as hungry as we are.

They took it on the chin for us. That could have been us.

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

This Microsoft news is going to be terrific for all those PC companies that have been taking it on the chin lately -- Intel being one, but Dell and Compaq and others, I think, will certainly benefit today.

Aaron's the guy you follow into battle. He's broad, he's got a strong chin ? a man's-man kind of persona. Very few actors ... can say subversive things and come off charming. Robert Redford and Paul Newman were guys who could do that.

It's just been a lot of people calling to say they are praying for me, people calling to tell me to keep my chin up. I even had a nice comment from someone in the media saying they appreciated the way I stood up and answered all the questions. They are kind words at a time when you would like to hear them.

It was really the department store chains and the apparel retailers that took it on the chin with weak January sales results. But a couple of names in those two groups are guiding higher than expected, predicated on expectations of lower promotional activity going into spring.

It's a bit of a bummer, but I just have to take it on the chin and keep working on it.

It's not shaken my own faith in things even if you do always question what you're doing as a matter of course. There's pressure at this level. You've got to take it on the chin but look to move forward straight away.

They completely went on cruise control and felt they didn't need to work as hard and make the strong pass. The next thing you know Linden was right there and then Weller was unstoppable. I was very impressed with what he was able to do. But we took it on the chin and we regrouped and came back. We are 7-3 in the league and we will take that at this point.

The U.S. economy is doing pretty well while the worldwide economy is taking it on the chin so people are starting to think that the U.S. is the place to invest in.

I learned that not everyone is the same; some are quick to judge, and if you're strong and keep your chin up you can achieve so many things while learning about others. When people come together and go through the same thing, it's amazing how much you depend on each other and you become a support team.

I mock him a little bit, but I don't think now would be the right time. I'm not the only guy. Everybody has their impression, because everybody's been yelled at by him before. He yells at everybody. It's not hard to see the chin coming out at you and the spit flying everywhere. If you've been yelled at, you know how to do the impression.

I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

i just take it on the chin and get on with it

I have written a letter to ask whether we can get together and have a bit of a chin wag, but I doubt whether I will hear back.

I just feel like we're taking it on the chin again.

Homeless people just take it on the chin and move to a more secluded area. We know that this is underreported.

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

I buckle that chin strap and I'm a different guy. I'm very vocal and I don't like offense of the opposition a whole lot.

He basically just said, 'I need to stretch my legs out. I've been sleeping in that tank with my knees up to my chin and I just have to stretch out. My legs have been cramping up.' It seemed that innocuous, but he would die two days later. It was a warning bell that we did not know what to do with,

For one man's chin is as rough as another's, and one man's lies are as smooth as another's

The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay, / Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay.

So when the sun in bed, / Curtained with cloudy red, / Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.