Kick In Quotes

#1. I spray the sky fast. Eyes ahead and behind. Looking for cops. Looking for anyone I don't want to be here. Paint sails and the things that kick in my head scream from can to brick. See this, see this. See me emptied onto a wall.

Cath Crowley

#2. Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

Cal Thomas

#3. I don't like honors ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.

Richard P. Feynman

#4. You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

Adolf Hitler

#5. In my life why do I smile at people I'd rather kick in the eye?

Morrissey

#6. I know its a kick in the pants to hear that the problem is you, but it's also fucking fantastic. You are, after all, the only person you can change.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. They stamp the slush off their boots with autopilot eyes and answering-machine voices while they wait for their drug of choice - caffeine or nicotine or sugar - to kick in and render their bodies at least tolerably functional until the first break. Out

Fredrik Backman

#8. Every kick in the ass is a step forward.

Anonymous

#9. Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.

Ogden Nash

#10. You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

Bryan Cranston

#11. Some people need a kick in the ass, others just need to think less for a couple of hours.

Herman Koch

#12. I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.

Roberto Bolano

#13. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me ... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney Company

#14. The window was covered by a screen, but my dad had shown me how to remove a screen as a preemptive safety measure in case I was trapped in a fire and he couldn't get to me and I turned out to be too stupid to figure out how to kick in a screen to escape death by burning.

Allie Brosh

#15. I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

William Klein

#16. Gabriel woke him up at the crack of dawn with a cup of water to the face and a kick in the ribs.

Brigid Kemmerer

#17. The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass.

John Knowles

#18. Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger, and the scares have to kick in the right places with the drama. And you try not to do too much to try to create those moments. Those moments create themselves.

Fede Alvarez

#19. Not everything that happens to us is within our control, my friend. Sometimes life gives us a swift kick in the ass, and we have to do the best we can with what we're given.

Felice Stevens

#20. Twenty-six billion dollars of fraud: no felony cases. But when the stakes are in the hundreds of dollars, we kick in 26,000 doors a year, in just one county.

Matt Taibbi

#21. I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.

Chelsea Krost

#22. So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!

Michael East

#23. Oh aye ... my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???'

Billy Connolly

#24. Self-love isn't always so poetic; sometimes it's a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You've got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.

Steve Maraboli

#25. We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

David Suzuki

#26. Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.

Nicholas Sparks

#27. It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.

Paul Neilan

#28. Life ain't all blow jobs and ice cream. Sometimes it's a shit sandwich and a kick in the nuts.

Matt Cole

#29. Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.

Eric Alterman

#30. I try to force my eyes open, but there's not much point - all I can see is a watery blur before my reflexes kick in and my eyelids close. In the space of just a few minutes, I've gone from 20/20 vision to blind. In space. Holding a drill.

Chris Hadfield

#31. From this expanded meta-view, they notice patterns and cycles that they could not see when they were in the thick of the situation. Their instinct and intuition kick in, and they often have flashes of insight that were not accessible when they were too close to the circumstances. The

Karen Kimsey-House

#32. My momma used to kick in the door like SWAT!

Aries Spears

#33. I wanted so badly to kick in his perfectly white, good dental plan teeth.

Bobby Adair

#34. THE MISCONCEPTION: Your fight-or-flight instincts kick in and you panic when disaster strikes. THE TRUTH: You often become abnormally calm and pretend everything is normal in a crisis.

David McRaney

#35. You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.

Kelley Armstrong

#36. Success is actually a short race - a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

Gary Keller

#37. A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#38. Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a ... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.

Erland Josephson

#39. My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

Duke Ellington

#40. Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well.

Christopher Hitchens

#41. Even a kick in the ass is good when you're facing the right direction.

Elie Tahari

#42. 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 of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty ... what you will.

Henry Miller

#43. I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!

Dorothy Hamill

#44. Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren't part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They're a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that.

Christopher Fowler

#45. Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

George Cukor

#46. Her heart literally stopped and she felt her fight-or-flight mode kick in. Part of her wanted to hide and cry, while the other part of her wanted to reach for her 9mm and shoot the bastard.

Kathleen Brooks

#47. Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Baltasar Gracian

#48. The prize is in the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it [my work]
those are the real things, the honors are unreal to me.

Richard Feynman

#49. I still have my "Anarchy in the UK" 7" [ Sex Pistols single]. I'm sure it gave us a context to think about as well as a kind of kick in the ass. But we had all been playing for years at that point.

David First

#50. Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Hattie McDaniel

#51. We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

Justin Alcala

#52. Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind.

Rex W. Tillerson

#53. Joe: We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave 'em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe: That's when I was a saxophone player. Now I'm a millionaire.

Tony Curtis

#54. You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

Patrick Warburton

#55. Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

Anne Lamott

#56. All your worries will begin to end when you start letting your faith kick in!

Timothy Pina

#57. If you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best ... "
"and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.

Brad Meltzer

#58. In human language, selling a smoking pot for three gold pieces is called a 'swindle,'" the man said, narrowly escaping a kick in the shins.
"In Elfish language it's called 'genius,'" the little elf replied cheerfully ...

Silvana De Mari

#59. I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Polly Adler

#60. The rain forest has its own defenses. The earth's immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite. Perhaps AIDS is the first step in a natural process of clearance.

Richard Preston

#61. What do you know?"
"Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes."
"What do you want, then?"
"What I can't have." Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. "Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.

Brandon Sanderson

#62. When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.

Jay Rock

#63. Clarke stared at the crash scene, eyes straining in the dark, waiting for the inevitable moment when her training would kick in, when her instincts would anesthetize her panic. But hovering at the edge of the wide expanse of debris, absorbing the destruction, all she felt was horror. It

Kass Morgan

#64. When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window.

Liz Fichera

#65. Once an innovation reaches a certain level of popularity, its success is virtually assured. By the same token, great innovations can fail because the domino effect doesn't kick in.15

Michael J. Mauboussin

#66. Goodbye, 2014. You've been a real kick in my lady balls; I definitely will not miss you. Hello, 2015, the year of success and new adventures,

Danielle Jamie

#67. I see." Her troubled gaze focused on the lock. "And the key would be ... ?"

"Gone," he said. "Lost years ago. Not that it matters none. I once seen His Grace kick in a brick wall 'cause he was in a mood for what lay on the other side.

Patricia Coughlin

#68. She's everything I'm not. I'm comfortable with who I am, what I am, but when you come up against someone like that, it's a kick-in-the-butt reminder of what you're never going to be, never going to have. I don't like feeling inadequate or stupid.

Nora Roberts

#69. But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

Richard Krajicek

#70. Always expect a kick in the teeth," said Millon, "so that when you get a slap in the chops, it seems like a triumph.

Jasper Fforde

#71. Normally, I admire your kick-in-the-face style, Lieutenant. But try that with this, and the two of us will be making love in heaven tonight."
"Heaven wouldn't have either of us

J.D. Robb

#72. His pale skin turned a greenish cast. A verbal kick in the nuts did that to a man.' (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#73. I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

Woody Allen

#74. Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks ... kick in one after another.

Mark Lynas

#75. Sometimes the kick in the pants we need must come from our own foot!

Toni Sorenson

#76. Once I got my business degree I realized I didn't want to do business anymore. My passion started to kick in and say, "Are you really sure this is what you want to do with the rest of your life? Are you 100% positive?"

Jay Ellis

#77. If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.

Ardal O'Hanlon

#78. How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

Edward Abbey

#79. I'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.

Pierce Brosnan

#80. Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let's see something to prove it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#81. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.

Anne Lamott

#82. We should take the sheer improbability of our own existence as a kick in the butt to get out of bed in the morning. If you hear this fact as discouraging - that you're only one in billions - then flip the script. You are one in billions! Someone has to succeed, so it might as well be you.

Sophia Amoruso

#83. I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I've stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could put in my hands in a matter of minutes.

Michael Perry

#84. When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly."
"And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.

Karen Marie Moning

#85. In lieu of Tasers, you'll have to hit me. Hard as you can. Then maybe some kind of fight-or-flight response will kick in and I'll turn into a bat to get away from you."
"Fight or flight."
"Yes."
"Only half of that is flight.

Adam Rex

#86. I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

Pierce Brosnan

#87. Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

Haruki Murakami

#88. In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

Rainn Wilson

#89. The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn't want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

Adrian Peterson

#90. It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.

David Cone

#91. The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.

Clint Eastwood

#92. NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.

Conan O'Brien

#93. She had nine hundred thirty-one viewers at the moment. Another sixty-nine, and sponsorships would kick in.

Will McIntosh

#94. [A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.

Paul Outerbridge

#95. You don't get any five shillings out of me.' 'Oh, all right.' He sat silent for a space. 'Things happen to guys that don't kick in their protection money,' he said dreamily.

P.G. Wodehouse

#96. Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Edward Hoagland

#97. It's your life, quite possibly your only one. Still you find yourself having a vodka at three a.m., waiting for your pill to kick in, with time ticking through you and your own ghost already wandering among your rooms.

Michael Cunningham

#98. When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Ty Cobb

#99. Going to the gym...all those people who always told me that you get addicted to it, that endorphins kick in, that eventually you crave it and look forward to it are sick lying ****s and I want to choke them with a protein bar and pummel them about the head with a bottle of SmartWater.

Stacey Ballis

#100. Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.

Josh Homme