My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn’t put it down – I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
I’d been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.
The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
When you lose badly, when you get knocked out and the ref has to stop it, that’s when you know it’s been a bad fight. But when you lose a fight having over the 12 rounds and you don’t look like you’ve done any rounds, that’s when you know it’s quite good.
I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that’s not just a health issue, but I’ll be knocked off that king’s stool.
If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I’ve never knocked back an opponent in my life.
Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.
Let me tell you, I’ve never heard a man whine more than Jason Momoa getting knocked around by little ol’ me.
Riffs are a repeating thing. They come back to you. Some of the things on ‘Back in Black’ were ideas we had knocked around on tracks before that: ‘That bit – maybe we should take a chunk of that and slug it in here.’
I’ve been knocked out and I’ve lost, but I’ve won a lot more.
It’s 33 years since we drew Wham! to a close and a lot of people’s perspectives have changed and a lot of the rough edges have been knocked off.
My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven’t had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn’t let that pitcher get me out. They say you can’t hit if you’re on your back, but I didn’t hit on my back. I got up.
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
I beat Luke Rockhold, he’s a great fighter. I knocked him out.
You’ve got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you’re knocked, you’ve got to get up.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I knocked Ricky Hatton out. It’s something that people are going to read and think I’m ridiculous, but if you look beyond what you see with naked eye, every time he gets hit clean, he’s hurt.
I’ve broken fifty-six bones, broke my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth.
I don’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.
You know that thing when you’re not asleep but you’re not awake, and you can’t move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!
Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they’d be in any other city.
I should have a better CV, and that’s knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
The flop that hit me was ‘Tevar.’ It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me. When you do a home production, it always hurts more. I wasn’t ready to accept that ‘Tevar’ didn’t do well.
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn’t fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it’s been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down – it is that you get up.
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever ’cause he believed in God.
A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when you’re 9 and have to beat a 14-year-old on the dribble. Or if you get knocked out and have to sit on the side and come on.
I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off – and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.
I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.
You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation.
One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan’s own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.
I’ve seen a lot of different training schools and dojos, and the sheer level of professionalism at the Performance Center and the state-of-the-art facility just knocked me for a six. It really blew me away.
I’ve knocked a ton of guys out. I know the power I have and the advantages I have against the best in the world.
I’d like to see the word ‘entrepreneur’ knocked off its pedestal. Being ‘entrepreneurial’ is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.
Truly, I am not afraid of one man in this whole UFC Octagon roster. I truly don’t care. What’s the worst thing that’s going to happen to me? I lose. I get knocked out?
I’m one who will go and have a beer with my pals on a Sunday afternoon. I’ll go on a Friday night and have an hour with my pals, lads that I’ve knocked about with for 20-25 years.
Amir Khan is a very good fighter, but he has been knocked out a few times when he has stepped up.
I’d knocked on doors when I’d gone to theater school in Los Angeles the summer of my junior year, trying to find an agent and submitting headshots, but nobody would see me, and I knew it was virtually impossible to get an audition if you didn’t have an agent.
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch – it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.
The first book that really knocked me out was the ‘Brothers Karamazov.’ I read it when I was a senior in high school.
I’ve knocked out a lot of people so I’m not going to cry about being stopped, it’s part of the game and I can accept that.
To be knocked out doesn’t mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
The enemies of our people have chosen the moment when I am knocked off my feet with sickness to stab me in the back because they know what the territorial integrity, national unity and the dignity of this great Zaire mean to me. I have devoted my life to defending these sacred values.
