Top 1200 Striking Out Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

[ Bernie Sanders' popularity] is exactly the same as Donald Trump's.It is a bunch of people who are disaffected with what the establishment has done, and they are striking out. Do they have any clear idea of what they want as an alternative? No. The candidates that they have surrounded themselves with either have no idea or are promising things that are so impractical they will never get done.

Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.

Great striking partnerships come in pairs.

"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.

Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage.

I hate striking out, but at the same time, I'm much better at letting them go rather than, earlier in my career, worrying about it so much before the next at-bat against the guy. You grow as you play, and every year, I work to cut them down.

As a parent you cannot support your child striking from school.

By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.

I rely on my ball striking more than anything.

For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.

When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in large measure, breaking out of the constrictions white society had set for them. They were claiming and remaking their own images, and doing so in bold and striking ways.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.

Jiu-Jitsu is the bond or styles all between all the other styles. Take Jiu-Jitsu out, a boxer is just a boxer, a kickboxer is just a kickboxer. Take Jiu-Jitsu out of the wrestling - what is he going to do, take the person down and? There's no finishing holds, there's no striking.

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

I work with one of the best striking coaches in the world, Henri Hooft.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

I just love striking.

As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs.

My striking is on a different level.

Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

I love striking, but MMA and Muay Thai are different.

The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

The most striking thing to me about human space flight and my own personal experience is that I've seen dramatic changes on Earth. We humans are rapidly changing the planet. I've watched Amazonia as the rainforest has been cut down. That's something I've seen out the window. I'm very worried about that.

I need to improve my striking and my wrestling, but I always be best at jiu-jitsu.

I've done taekwondo striking my entire life.

My striking isn't the prettiest, and I hit really hard.

Jiu-jitsu is my strong suit, but I trust my wrestling and my striking.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

Henry had taken striking on to a different level

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

Rose is a very versatile athlete, she works her striking well.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.

Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!

Banality is sometimes striking.

Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.

I was getting a lot of good work with my wrestling up in Iowa, but I needed a more all-around game, striking, jiu-jitsu at a high level. I had a lot of good coaches out at ATT to work with. They pushed me. Everything was smarter. Everything was precise.

Uriah Hall is on the level of Anderson Silva's striking.

Street art is designed to be seen out of the corner of your eye, on the hoof. Art that's made for galleries is made to be looked at in a more static way for a longer period of time and may not be so striking immediately, but perhaps resonates for a longer period.

Striking down the Affordable Care Act would be a tragic setback.

I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

I like beautiful things that are striking.

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

Henri Hooft is a master on the feet when it comes to striking.

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.