Fist Quotations

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

And I'm always surprised when people have seen 'The Foot Fist Way', so when people bring that up, I'm always surprised that's reached other people besides my immediate friends.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

Nobody is perfect all the time. I felt very good tonight but I had lots of problems in the fist inning.

No one is more than a sum total of his life experiences. Mr. Wilson is the son of a strict disciplinarian who ruled his home with an iron fist as well.

I couldn't help being a part of my race. A race that continued to be tough. It was possible for me to accept myself, finally, only when I realized-emotionally-that poetry is tough too, that a poem can contain as much fury and power as a fist or a blackjack.

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.

Getting the bands in the fist place because we started late ... it was a challenge. I'm not saying it was easy but (organizing) it went smoothly.

I had wanted to perform strongly and pump my fist after crossing the finish line. I feel greater than my last second-place finish because this time making it to the podium was a much more vivid target.

caused excitement recently when he uncovered evidence in China that indicates anthropoid primates may have developed fist in Asia rather than Africa.

I looked up and gave them a fist because they worked as hard as I did for this. I appreciate everything they've ever done for me. I love them so much. I gave my little brother (Chase, 10) my district medal and he was so excited. I told him he won it too, because it was definitely a family effort.

I always say that Ian Moser came off the mat after he won his third straight state title the same way he came off after winning the first match of his career. There was no fist pumping or raising his index finger to let everybody know he was No. 1. He was all business.

He has got a heck of a punch on him and I wouldn't like his fist in the back of my head so I think it's best to stay away when he does that! He punches the ball in training and gets a lot of distance with them, some even go over the halfway line!

Success is easy. Any mug can be successful and make a fist of it. It's how you deal with it afterwards that is the test of character. I've watched a lot of people lose everything. Now Keating in a sense has lost everything. If you add up all the things he's lost, it's pretty significant. But there is still an absolutely remarkable, unbroken, interesting, involved bloke who is not crushed by what he's been through at all. He's still defiant, he's still funny, he's still full of ideas.

I saw the female drop to the ground and start screaming. She got back up and I saw a large male, clench his fist and punch the female twice in the face.

John is an iron fist in a velvet glove, ... He's every bit as determined and tenacious as he is uplifting and gracious. He's a skilled manager of people, he's well-respected by my staff and Cabinet, and he knows how to cut to the quick of solving a problem. He's the kind of professional - and friend - I trust to offer smart counsel and honest input in every situation.

I think, though, after you see Mr. Jones go down and then come up on his knees on the tape, you will see ... his hands are open, his palms are open, they're not clenched in a fist in a fighting mode, he is trying to get into a surrender position.

I wasn't surprised by this, ... This keeps Willamette's fist to the fire.

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

The alternative is getting into fist fights. Even hot words are better than fist fights.

You can get a hole anywhere from the size of a fist to a quarter. The pipe deteriorates from soil conditions and age. The material thins, gets thin walls and pressure just pushes it right out.

We get regular reports of meteorites. People see them and they bring them in. A normal size is anywhere from the size of your fist to a grapefruit.

When you're going against arguably the best defensive lineman in the game, you're going to lose some sleep at night, especially when you're feeling that he's in a zone. It's human nature. If you see me ball up my fist to hit you, you're going to move out the way, right? Just imagine that. When you start taking those punches, sooner or later you're going to jerk back.

We don't see ourselves as four All-Stars. We see ourselves as one unit. It's like five fingers on a hand. You can do more damage together as a fist than spread out flat.

That was huge especially with (Mike) Sweeney on deck. He's hit me pretty well. That's why I kind of gave a little fist pump after I picked him off. If you make a mistake to Sweeney, he's going to hit the ball out of the park and would be a tie game. That is one of the big points of the game.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust

I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

The Shuttles were nice when we fist made them in 1981, but really they are now 25 years old. ... Who out there is driving 25 year old cars? These babies are classics with 100 millions miles on them. Its time to send The Shuttles to museums were they belong. I'm just glad the folks at Shuttle Trader Magazine are there to help NASA unload these turkeys.

To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety

As a shareholder you get nervous when companies say they are looking at the U.S., because historically, UK firms haven't made a good fist of it over there.

As close as they are, it becomes like two brothers in a fist fight. Our practice goes straight to meltdown mode.

Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say ""Storms suck!

I opened my fist to shake your hand, you closed the door and the golden fence.

I made a mistake out there and I got mad. I slammed my fist into the rearview mirror and I think I broke my wrist. Guess I shouldn't have done that.

If youre going to do it, do it, ... If youre going to put on a stage show and go crazy and go wild, do it. If youre going to throw your fist in the air, you extend it! You get your arm up there!

But in some ways, this is a real positive for our football team, for us to be tested in this way. We physically got beaten by a quality football team (Carolina). You can dwell on the negatives or you can do something about it and roll your fist up and play a hell of a lot better.

How do we acquire our first language? Fist we hear it, then we understand it, then we speak it, then we read it, then we write it.

Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. ''New art,'' it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ''ism.'')

These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.

The girls did well for their fist race. For a lot of them, it was their absolute first race. But they ran well and we can certainly set some goals based on this.

All I could do was pump my Michael Jordan fist, ... You know, when Michael Jordan hit that last shot? I pumped my fist and continued to work out in the weight room. It just made me realize it was time to put in more work.

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.

Its all shapes and sizes and ages of people who, for some reason, think theyre shaking their fist at the oil-producing people, but it actually hurts us quite a bit,

It's a nice price, but there might be some other parts of the business to be knocked off too. The management needs to make a fist of its strategy. Otherwise we'll see some bid activity.

You have to make a fist before you can punch a wall. Here's an opportunity for intervention before things escalate.

We've been talking to multiple vendors, and evidently, our conversations with Amazon yielded some fruit, ... because they announced their own initiative on the heels of our announcement. We can now hope or expect them to be our fist vendor.

We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terror activity anywhere.

We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terrorist action. We will use drastic measures on all the roads, in all sensitive areas.

It's a very volatile component that should come back in the fist quarter. It's a weak report, but it's not quite as God-awful as the headline numbers make it look.

It was a swing. Our catcher caught it. Doug Eddings called him out and somewhere along the line, because the guy ran to first base, (Eddings) altered the call, ... When an umpire calls a guy out and you're the catcher, and I've caught my share of them, he's out. He didn't call swing, he rang him up with his fist and said 'You're out.'

He's got an iron fist when he needs to, but he knows when to hold off. He's got a good mix, and he does very well with the players.

Governor Pataki, you've ruled Ground Zero with an iron fist for too long. You've let corporate elites and other special interest groups dominate what's done here.

He became violent and hit the teller with a closed fist and bound the teller as well.

If he gives you a fist pump that's pretty emotional for him.

Here, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat nearer to the great fact -- the mysteries of mysteries -- the fist appearance of new beings on earth,

Children use the fist / Until they are of the age to use the brain.