Quotes About Being Slapped In The Face

#1. People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's ideas, and can't listen to other people's ideas without feeling like they're being slapped in the face. Those people are more in a prison.

Kathleen Hanna

#2. I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

Muriel Spark

#3. I had once remarked to Feely that, because of the oxygen, breathing fresh air was like breathing God, but she had slapped my face and told me I was being blasphemous.

Alan Bradley

#4. If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

Diplo

#5. Losing teaches you something

Tavis Smiley

#6. The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

Noel Gallagher

#7. We say our souls want joy, but they don't," she said. "They want what they already know, joyful or not.

Daniel Abraham

#8. Scholars," he said, "are an erudite lot who study this or that and can talk about it in prodigious detail. Very smart and unendingly educated, Scholars! They can explain almost anything, even if it isn't true.

Wm. Paul Young

#9. I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

Norton Simon

#11. I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

Beck

#12. The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Chris Pine

#13. We come to the realization of the heart that it is time to change when we become addicted to fixing a problem instead of proactively finding solutions.

Molly Friedenfeld

#14. First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

Jerry Saltz

#15. And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.

Han Nolan

#16. Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

Dolly Parton

#17. The past was so past it hurt.

Rick Moody