Slapping Quotations

If I were doing a real rock show, slapping the phone book in time to the music, grooving with the songs, then it would matter to know how I felt about what I was playing. You can't fake it in that situation. But I'm just counting them down as they appear on the chart, 1 through 40. What really matters is what I say between the songs.

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.

I felt like I was playing well enough to be in the lead, and it wasn't like I was slapping it all over the place and just happy to be there. I felt like I should have had the lead (alone) after three rounds.

He was walking around like one of the guys. You're a kid, you've just beaten Arkansas, somebody says, 'Congratulations' and you say, 'Thanks, buddy!' and start slapping backs, not realizing it's the president of the United States.

Hockey is the original extreme sport. These guys are flying down the ice on steel blades going 30 mph and slapping pucks 100 mph.

Just really being stronger was important for us, and being tough on the inside. A lot of times we were able to get the ball inside in the last game but they would come in, and you've got guys slapping at the ball and everything and we were getting it taken from us. This game, we made sure as soon as we caught it we were ball-tough and that nobody could take the ball from us.

Man, there have been times I've walked through a line, and these girls are slapping my hand just as hard as they can after we've beaten them.

We were slapping each other's backs so hard we were red raw.

We came out slow again and it's the story of our life. Maybe I'll have to start slapping kids or something.

What we're dealing with is a government in Chisinau (the Moldovan capital) with one hand slapping the United States and with the other, digging in the pockets of the United States.

When Ruddock starts slapping anklets on these people, their own lawyers would immediately mount challenges,

When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the corner for, like, half an hour until she saw in the reflection, me behind her, and she freaked out and started slapping me.

We were trying a bunch of different combinations of kids, so we were clunky - shots wouldn't fall, it was real physical, and there was lots of slapping and reaching. We played reasonably well, but never got into a rhythm. Amanda Johns did a great job off the bench. Sometimes when your starters are having off nights, it's nice to have players who can help out.

We we charging in ... slapping the water and screaming at the shark: 'Hey, no, no, no.

The woeful tales of 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Street Fighter' have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is not enough to bring in the fans of the franchise. Also, the way games now unfold their stories more parallels that of a movie, with characters and plot points actually meaning as much as a high score.

We were on the fortunate end of it. We did a nice job of getting our bodies in and not the silly sort of reaching, slapping fouls we've been guilty of sometimes. Overall, I want to give my guys credit. They had a very good defensive effort.

Spectators who witnessed that concert, ... still recount his fearless attitude, innate stage charisma and striking technique -- balancing on toes, slapping the floor with the sides of his shoes, releasing cascades of musical sounds while powering off the boards with both legs kicking.

I knew he deserved a 'T', I just wanted to know why the points were taken off. He said the rule is the basket can't count on slapping or intentional jarring of the basket, the basket does not count no matter what. Before, after, whatever.

I'll be like slapping all over and I can't wait to get back into the house.

I had a real good feeling about Johnny slapping a double into the gap or something. What makes our lineup tough is that if it's not one guy, it can be another.

If Mr. Harper wants to play sheriff, he can start by slapping handcuffs on himself,

I'm really sorry about that. I have a really bad shoulder. Every time I threw the ball toward my caddie today, he was slapping it everywhere.

I have that fear (of West Nile) - I step out at dusk and I'm slapping my arms and legs because you just don't know which one is the viral carrier, ... I spoke to one of my doctor friends this morning. I asked him what concerns does he have, as a doctor, about the spray. And he says he has none at all.

He's yelling, but he's yelling with excitement and with a smile on his face. There's no way for us to go in there (to games) tight. He'll have a smile on his face the whole practice, almost. He's slapping fives, stuff he doesn't do during the regular season.

The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

For a big man to throw it in, you know it's just your night. Personally, I hate to blow a team out because that fuels their fire. It's like somebody slapping you in your face, and you want to get 'em back.

It's the heavy hand of government slapping me in the head.

It's kind of like a yo-yo out there. It's just high winds and that's slapping the lines together.

We talked about it at the half, that we had too many turnovers, that we need to be smarter with the ball. Not to be cautious, but be smarter with our passes and come hard to the ball. There's going to be a lot of slapping and reaching, some of it may be called or not be called, but we had to be more aggressive with the ball.

They're, like, super long. I don't like giving him a high five after a good play because he ends up slapping me on my elbow.

I don't think the balance of the programming should be achieved at the expense of the one program that distinguishes us. Are we potentially slapping the man right in the face?

The kids were relaxed, and they were finding the ball. Instead of trying to come up with one big hit, we did a good job of slapping base hits around.

That's what happens when bodies start slapping.