Top 186 Pounding Quotes & Sayings

It's not like you can start pounding drinks when you're wheeling your kids all over. They gave me something to shoot for, a goal to get back to.

Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

America's Most Wanted? I love it when there's a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

I like it when my heart's pounding and I'm sweating and I'm nervous.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

Gym sessions will always consist of 40 minutes to one-hour cardio. I try to stay off the treadmill because of the pounding, so it's the rower or the cross-trainer.

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.

My heart's pounding like I'm watching Oprah's farewell season.

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

When you're young, playing drums is immediately satisfying 'cause whether or not you know how to play anything, the bottom line is that you're pounding on something, so you're happy about it.

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

Tap was against everything I had learned to do. I was pulled up as a ballet dancer, and I wasn't used to pounding the floor with bent knees.

Yes, you do need to be doing cardio to shed fat but no, you don't need to be going for hour long runs pounding pavement or hitting the treadmill every day.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.

Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.

Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

... there's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.

A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees take.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.

There are a lot of games out there these days that you either know how to play it or don't, or if you spend enough time pounding away at it, you're going to beat it eventually.

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.

Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

My head is pounding. Like the worst hangover ever.

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.

The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!' 'Valdez who?

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

I got a headache right now and you wouldn't know it. It's just a pounding. Back of the head. That's the thing. You get used to it.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

Officials in the George W. Bush administration later criticized the cruise missile strikes that were ordered by President Bill Clinton in Afghanistan in 1998 as only 'pounding sand.'

Great passing and setting - I admire that more than the super big guys pounding the ball.

Coming down the 18th, your heart's pounding, and the hair is sticking straight up on your arms - there's no feeling like it.