Hard Knock Quotes

#1. I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#2. I really like 'Hard-Knock Life' because I get to perform with all of the other girls, and it's such a strong number.

Lilla Crawford

#3. Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.

Renee James

#4. Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

Joel Edgerton

#5. Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

David Heyman

#6. Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.

Nate Diaz

#7. Why does everything have to be so damn hard on me? Women everywhere can drop their panties and have mindless sex, but no, not me! I have to get emotionally invested in a douchenozzle who is only willing to knock me up for his own pleasure!

Katie Ashley

#8. Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.

Randall Jarrell

#9. Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

Bob Dylan

#10. Hey, it's not like we were together for a hundred years or anything." He tapped his fingernail against his teeth and sucked in a breath. "No, wait."
"If you don't knock it off I'm going to kick your ass so hard you'll fart everything you say.

Dana Marie Bell

#11. Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

David Ayer

#12. You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door.

Toni Sorenson

#13. If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

Chi McBride

#14. Sophie," he said again and pushed me hard enough to knock me out of my seat and onto the floor. Dang shifter reflexes. Weren't they supposed to keep this kind of thing from happening?
"Caeden!" I hissed under my breath.
"Oopsy daisy," he blushed.

Micalea Smeltzer

#15. Kick hard when you have the chance. Aim for parts that hurt. Hope you get lucky and his surprise shocks him into being stupid. Then knock him out with the shovel if you've got one handy. If not, go find the shovel." - Nora

Timandra Whitecastle

#16. I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did.

David Beckham

#17. But immobilizing darts don't bring on sleep gently, like a good cup of tea; they knock out like a bottle of hard liquor straight up.

Yann Martel

#18. He knocks once against the side. I don't get it at first, and then I laugh.
Let's establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you'd like to come in.
"Yes, Evan." I'm laughing so hard, it's starting to hurt. "You can come in.

Rick Yancey

#19. It is not enough to knock on successes' door; you have to knock hard enough. And if no one answers,
either go through a window, or break down the door.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Evil became invisible when it was everywhere. Like air, everyone forgot it was there until it was blowing hard enough to knock off their hat or muss up their hair.

Sean DeLauder

#21. It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

Allan McNish

#22. Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

Bryce Harper

#23. Hard winds and strong ideas have powerful muscles; they can knock you down easily!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#25. Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

Alan Hirsch

#26. Even bitches can get a break in life.

Suzanne Wright

#27. Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

Junot Diaz

#28. My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Joanna Trollope

#29. If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time I hit somebody, the goal is to knock myself out. I know that if I hit somebody hard enough that I can feel it, it's hurting them 10 times worse.

Bob Sanders

#30. Safe. No one ever is. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the peices after it's all over and carrying on.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel.

Debby Ryan

#32. Don't fight in front of the client, boys." Catarina implored in her sweet voice," or I will knock your heads together so hard, your skulls will crack like eggs

Cassandra Clare

#33. I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

Harvey Fierstein

#34. I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.

Muhammad Yunus

#35. As
calmly as she could, she turned away from the cop who was interviewing her and walked toward him.
He grabbed her fast enough, hard enough to knock the breath out of her. Nothing had ever felt so
safe. "I was hoping you'd come. I was really hoping."
"Did you get banged up any?

Nora Roberts

#36. Ah-ha! On the stove was a cast-iron skillet. Perfect. Precisely how hard did you have to hit someone on the head to knock him out without killing him? I wasn't sure. Guess I'd just have to bash away and hope for the best.

Linda Grimes

#37. I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"

Mitch Hedberg