Knockabout Quotes

#1. A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara Walters or Connie Chung does in the States, in-depth, done properly.

Terry Wogan

#2. Hap, even tough I'm a racist castrating bitch that wants you to be better than you are, wants you to do something with your life besides be a knockabout, do you think you could find it in your heart, in your itty-bitty white man's dick, to get a hard-on for me? In other words, want to fuck?

Joe R. Lansdale

#3. I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

Lev Grossman

#4. I wear makeup pretty much every day. For training, I usually do a lighter base, a lighter blush and I used the mascara and a little bit of the lip gloss.

Gabby Douglas

#5. Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

Peter Mullan

#6. I know being with you means my death, but after the night I spent thinking you were dying, I don't care. I need you. Do you understand that? I need you.

Donna Grant

#7. I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me. I do have a commercial voice; I'm not quirky. I'm very normal and that's probably why I like people like Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. It's no-nonsense. They sing well, and that's it.

Jessie Ware

#8. I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

Sylvester Stallone

#9. Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.

Zainab Salbi

#10. I got to go to New York Comic-Con. I've never been and I've heard it's crazy, so I'd love to see it. To be quite honest, I'd like for people to want us to be there, too. I'm hoping. I'm knocking on wood, so we'll see.

Steven Yeun

#11. Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.

Megan Whalen Turner

#13. Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

Aristotle.

#14. Did I think I'd ever find someone I could live with, she asked me, and I said yes, and she said who, and I said me with a vagina and cleavage a little dog could get lost in.

Lionel Fisher

#15. An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

Peter Drucker

#16. There would be no accumulation of strength inside
if the choices that you make
did not require disipline and intention.

Gary Zukav

#17. Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

Steve Earle