Punch Quotes

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Bruce Lee

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
George Carlin

Become, Another, Far

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
Mike Tyson

Brain, Try, Nose

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
e. e. cummings

Time, Children, Used

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
Roberto Duran

Makes, Getting, Three

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve Martin

Laughter, Real, Laugh

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.
Scott Adams

Women, Important, Why

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner

Battle, Talent, Existence

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
Martha Plimpton

Character, Joke, Culture

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
Steve Martin

Music, Great, Listen

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.
Mike Schmidt

Time, Game, Around

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.
Christian Bale

Good, Mean, Whole

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
Terry Pratchett

Men, True, Find

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.
Stan Laurel

Face, Nose, Mine

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
Ed Koch

Good, Bag, Punching

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).
Shaquille O'Neal

Why, Here, Tell

When I throw a punch, I mean it.
Gina Carano

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
Joe Biden

Society, American, Took

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
David Mamet

Fear, Greatest, Line

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.
Hulk Hogan

Fake, Insult, Show

In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!
Glenn Danzig

Crazy, Weather, Next

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
James Wolcott

Respect, Bad, Through

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
Don Rickles

Best, Throw, Otherwise

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Power, Powerful, Mean

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.
Ron Perlman

Working, Direction, Mouth

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.
Greg Kinnear

Happy, Wanted, Earth

There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Family, Person, Together

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
Stephen Greenblatt

Father, Long, Tell

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.
Jeffrey Kluger

Home, Book, Thought

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
John Major

Community, Weight, Britain

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