A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
John Kenneth Galbraith

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.
Judge Mills Lane

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.
Gerry Beckley

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
Keanu Reeves

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.
Marla Sokoloff

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.
Brian Celio

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.
Paul Reiser

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.
Gil Gerard

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.
George Woodcock

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
Maxine Waters

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
David Herbert Lawrence

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'
Les Dawson

I smoked heroin for six years. Kicking the habit? Hard wasn't the word for it.
Leif Garrett

I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.
Roy Ayers

I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.
Corey Haim

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
Larry Niven

I've gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It's a different kind of kicking, though.
Anthony Anderson

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.
Mike Weir