Banging Quotes

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself. (Branford Marsalis)
If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall. View quote
David Belle
[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh. View quote
Anton Chekhov
What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against? View quote
Larry Wall
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table. View quote
Maureen Johnson
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about. View quote
Linwood Barclay
Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women! View quote
Burt Ward
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall. View quote
Abdul Qadeer Khan
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. View quote
David Hackworth
When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. View quote
Deborah Kerr
I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation. (Erin Cummings)
I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls. View quote
Fred Couples
I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman. View quote
Kesha
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background. View quote
Kristin Scott Thomas
If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it. View quote
Lenny Wilkens
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together. View quote
Sylvia Plath
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. View quote
Phil Collins
Well I couldn't agree with you more, so the timing and the sense of urgency. That's why with everything within us we need to start literally banging garbage lids together, to create enough noise so that our neighbors and our co-workers realize where the time clock is at this point, because the second hand is literally banging up against 11:59 on the clock on freedom when it comes to health care. View quote
Michele Bachmann
I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out. View quote
Kim Wilde
Instead of talking about the things that most people care about, we talked about what we cared about most. While parents worried about childcare, getting the kids to school, balancing work and family life, we were banging on about Europe. As they worried about standards in thousands of secondary schools, we obsessed about a handful of more grammar schools. As rising expectations demanded a better NHS for everyone, we put our faith in opt-out for a few. While people wanted more than anything stability and low mortgage rates, the first thing we talked about was tax cuts. (David Cameron)
If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination... The movie has been signed by Michael Bay. This is the same man who directed The Rock in 1996. Now he has made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Faust made a better deal. View quote
Roger Ebert
At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter. View quote
Cecelia Ahern
It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new! View quote
Kenneth Grahame