Slap Quotations

When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from?

I think the thing about it is when you grow up in Chicago there's such a thing as putting on airs, you know? And you just learn not to put on airs. Don't act like, 'Oh boy, I'm somebody.' They'll slap you down.

You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.

The prenup needs to be drawn up months before the wedding, not days - it's not something you slap together and sign in the car on the way to the ceremony. A shotgun prenup might not hold up in court.

In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The hip-hip-hoo-f**kin' rah. Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on you crazy diamond, because we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.

Lufkin is a hub, so they told us they were sending MREs (meals ready to eat). But in the meantime, people are hungry. And our people are worn slap out,

Leetch was trying to do a slap pass to me and it kind of got away from him, but sometimes you get those lucky breaks. I knew I hadn't made a kicking motion. The only thing I tried to do was I tried to move my leg and get my stick on it. But I was pretty confident that they would realize that it wasn't a kicking motion.

Let's get the power back to the people, ... not have the politicians go into a back room and slap each other on the back and smoke a stogie and come up with an agreement, smiling.

Many victims consider it a slap in the face that Archbishop O'Malley has been rewarded for a job not very well done.

She has this amazing ability to be someone who's in control, very serious, who could be very intimidating, but then could be incredibly playful and weird. She has these dual qualities, both in her life and in her work, which she can kind of slap on and off, and that's just hilarious.

She has a great fastball (62 mph), but she has developed a couple of other pitches to where she throws a curve, drop and rise. She has made the move offensively to a left-handed slap hitter and now a left-handed hitter who can hit it over your head.

She is a girl so I wouldnt slap her. I would lock her in a room full of spiders and let her think about what shes doing to the youth of America.

Mr. Shaw drove his team gingerly across the new bridge, ... Once across, he quickly found a spot to turn around, then with a slap of the reins and a flick of the whip he sent the team back across at full trot while the passengers cheered loudly expressing their hearty approval.

Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer's dilemma, I'll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist.

One time (Friday) he was pulling on me and I took a swipe at him to slap his hand off,

Maybe (Axelrod) thought I was going to slap him, because he knows that's the kind of language you get slapped for. And he grabbed my wrist.

I was going to slap the (expletive) out of him.

If this is true, it's another slap at South Dakota farmers and ranchers from the Bush administration, ... There's no substitute for the face-to-face interaction that producers have with FSA personnel. They need the opportunity to ask questions, to explain their circumstances. To lose that opportunity is going to be a serious problem.

I don't accept for any officer to even slap a prisoner,

I am completely not surprised. He played his age card the last time, and everybody felt sorry for him. He got away with a slap on the wrist.

But don't just slap $10,000 of miscellaneous expenses on your return. You need to explain that you work for company XYZ and do not get reimbursed for XYZ expenses.

I find this way of thinking not only a disrespectful, slap in the face, but also counterproductive in promoting balance and harmony when recognizing and celebrating the various heritage observances.

I find it hard to understand how a lateral slap makes your head go backward,

I did not expect her to be here because she would be seeing the poverty of her people and that would be a slap on the face if you were the President.

I can't imagine why they'd push this forward without having those answers. It's a slap in the face.

Getting picked to finish fourth or fifth in the ACC was like a slap in the face to us. That was based solely on teams having more talent than us, but that doesn't mean they're better than us. You can't look at what people had in the preseason anymore, though -- you have to evaluate teams on what they're doing right now.

From our point of view, and I think from a lot of Americans' point of view, it's a slap in the face. It's meant to appeal to those who agree with it and they look at it and they chuckle, and everyone else it's meant to be offensive to.

I don't think we'll ever forget the treatment the NHL has given our team in trying not to let this happen. It was a joke. I think it's a slap in the face the NHL has given our fans because they should've been involved. This should have been at the Forum in front of 22,000 people as we walk up and get the rings and open it up and show the fans. I personally feel the NHL has taken some of that away from us.

For most Porsche shareholders, it's a slap in the face.

For me to be a starting running back in the NFL and somebody says that I could play 16 games, but I won't get 1,000 yards, for me I look at it as a slap in the face. That's one of those slaps where I say, 'OK, you can slap me once. But at the end of the season, I want to make sure I'm hitting you back with a powerful punch.'

He's got wheels. He's one of the fastest kids I've ever coached. He has great puck-handling skills. He's a horse; you don't ever see kids like him. He has a tremendous slap shot.

He has all the skills but I've been trying to get him to get better at the little things. He's like a big sponge. You have to slap him around and throw him back in the water every now and then but he'll be right back to soak up some more.

He has so much potential. Sometimes he doesn't realize that we go as he goes. He's such a nice kid. I wish I could slap him before each quarter. He has to get some type of edge, some type of fire.

He got it, ... It was the best option to the minor leagues we had all year. He went down and figured out that he's not a Punch-and-Judy slap hitter. He can hit with some power.

He goes off sometimes, but I think it's good. When people make mistakes and are repeatedly messing up over and over again, at some point you've got to grab them by the back of the neck and slap them.

He made a comment that said the flowers in Terri's room were being treated better than she is. That was a slap in the face to the people who work in that hospice. He ought to be ashamed of himself.

We are extremely pleased to see judges hand down some strict sentences and to see prosecutors actively pursuing these cases. This sends a message that Kentucky is aggressively pursuing cases of insurance fraud, and those who are caught won't get a slap on the wrist. They will pay for the crime.

What we Five do is not just slap a haircut or clothes or exterior style on them. We want what works for them - the rock-n-roll of their lives.

Hopefully this is a real good slap in the face for us. The level of urgency has to be turned up several octaves now.

Hopefully this is a good slap in the face for our players. We turned the puck over in the neutral zone 30 times. When you lose execution its hard to get it back. I'm disappointed in the way our top players played and execution. It's just one game and we have to move on.

He's played outstanding this year. He's kind of like the heart of this team, and for him not to make the Pro Bowl as a starter, it's not a slap in the face, but it probably hurt him.

He can put the puck right where he wants it. He has an unbelievably hard slap shot. Glove side every time. He's really good up close doing wrist shots. High glove, high blocker.

Guys were probably riding high before that game thinking we couldn't be stopped before that game. That was a slap in the face. Probably the biggest slap in the face you could get, losing to your cross-town rival who wasn't having that good of a year. It definitely woke us up.

Joss is doing a little movie called Wonder Woman. I'd slap on the Dukes for that!

I think it's a great move for Motorola. GIC is the leading maker of cable set top boxes. Slap on the Motorola brand name and distribution and it's a real good move for Motorola.

I think it's a slap in the face to all the people that have pumped him up and glorified him over the years,

I think it's a slap in the face for people to say that we're not going to be a good playoff team because Larry's gone. We didn't make the playoffs last season because of one player.

Last year I didn't think we were getting in, and obviously we didn't. I also didn't think Northern Iowa was getting in, and they did. So that was kind of a slap in the face, almost. We finished ahead in the conference and they still got in ahead of us. We didn't really understand that very much.

I was watching TV and they were saying that of all the teams in the playoffs, we had the weakest defense out of all of them. I think that's kind of a slap in the face to us, and go out and prove to people we're not just an offensive team.

January was mild and snow free and this is a slap back to reality.

Robert has a great chance to become one of the best hitters Freed-Hardeman has ever produced. When he came to us he was more of a slap hitter, but now he's fine-tuned his swing and really hits the ball hard into the gaps.

Pierre's too dangerous. He'll slap down a bunt with the bases loaded. I wanted Lowell.

Reid snapped, answering a reporter's question. The failure to move ahead with the Iraq investigation, he said, is ''a slap in the face to the American people.

My office, while committed to working with the Securities and Exchange Commission in our investigation of the mutual fund industry, will not be party to settlements that fail to protect the interests of investors and let the industry off with little more than a slap on the wrist,

I wish I could skate one more shift, take one more slap shot from the blue line, for the best fans of hockey. But knowing my No. 2 will forever have a home here is more than I could ask.

It doesn't help party unity and it's a slap in the face of party unity.

I still feel the same way, ... Its a slap in the face to the NFL when someone thats in college tries to put himself above the NFL and above the NFL (Players Association) and what we established and what all the guys who sacrificed that played before me and before him, before he stepped on the field,to rise up and try to be better than that, is a discredit to the guys that played this game.

It didn't sound like they were putting him high on the priority list. I know that's a slap in the face.

I thought I was getting squeezed a little bit. I wanted to lose control, but I just kept my composure. I'd just turn around and slap my thigh.

I think this was done a little underhanded. I didn't even hear about any outside proposals until two months ago. After working for the city for 30 years and helping put this whole project together, its like a slap in the face.

That was a real slap in the face. I think they perceive Microsoft as part of Western hegemony somehow.

We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate women's rights and welfare and the struggle to liberate women without denouncing this particular woman.

We really want to do what a number of provinces have looked at, to make the provisions of the Criminal Code that deal with conditional sentences more than a slap on the wrist. They need to be real sentences where people live up to the terms of those orders,

We have some very ugly numbers. You can argue that the ISM is still backward looking, and maybe even the jobless claims, but eventually we're going to need some evidence that the economy is improving. We had a lot of enthusiasm coming from earnings, but the news today is a little bit of a slap in the face that we're not out of the woods yet.

We can't blame anyone but ourselves. We didn't play as well as we wanted to. We know we were sputtering offensively and defensively. It's kind of a slap in the face and now we're in the position we're in.

When you're dealing with millions of dollars of fines and not thousands of dollars, that's actually a wake up call to many organizations that right now are taking privacy issues too easily. I don't think it's a slap on the wrist.

We can't afford to get rattled and let their quickness affect us. They like to slap at the ball and use their hands a lot on defense, so we've got to take care of and put an emphasis on having ownership of the basketball.

When I saw five of our guys slap the floor, it reminded me of Duke and I knew we were going to go away with the win. I don't teach that; they did that on their own. Our defensive intensity played a big role in our winning.

The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

We shouldn't need wake-up calls. We don't look at it that way. But when you lose, it's like a slap upside the head. It's like, 'Come on, get it together.' So we've got to put this behind us and just get refocused as a team.

When a cowboy has a chew in his cheek, don't slap him on the back

There hasn't been a whole lot of talk about us except to say that we're going to stink it up. And to slap those people in the face that don't believe in us, I feel great right now. I'm riding on cloud nine.

To average 30 against Detroit, that's a slap in their face. They're not going to take that.

When Colleen first heard about it she was just devastated because it was so hurtful. She also felt it was such a slap in the face to aboriginal people. It was also very hurtful to her family - her children and grandchildren.

To me, that's a little bit of a slap in the face. I think we're a pretty good hockey team. ... The only thing we need to do is prove it on the ice.

Too naive ... We keep beating ourselves. We know soccer doesn't end until the referee blows the whistle and we've just got to keep working and not make so many mistakes. . . . It's a slap in the face to wake us up and realize there are people out there that want to beat us badly. We missed a good opportunity tonight.

The opposing team's locker room is next to ours. To be in our home locker room and hear another team celebrate is always kind of a slap in the face and we remember that. We take that very seriously.

We kind of took it as a slap in the face, so we said we're going to start doing something about it.

Unbelievable was absolutely my first reaction and my second thought was to my son Christopher, that was a slap in the face,

To hold this meeting, days before voting and the town meeting, is a slap in the face to the people of St. Albans. This is not a black and white issue. This is an issue of process and the trust of the people.

What this is is a sucker punch .... wasting hours and hours on the Senate floor, ... slap in the face.

We just see it (the lawsuit) as a gross slap in the face.

You gotta go hard. You stand hard. You sleep hard. Run hard. Everything's got to be fast. That's what we need. We need that slap on the rear end to get us going.

We could take any product, slap that logo on it and sell it.

Even if they slap Jackson down on the tying issue, there still will be the rest of the verdict.

Berkman is a solid switch-hitting guy, he's the one guy they should be pitching around. Berkman is a different hitter in Houston than on the road. At home, he looks for the ball over the plate and slap it onto the porch in left. On the roach he tries to be a pull hitter. Kornerko is solid power hitter and a real good breaking ball hitter. They are the two guys who can beat you.

At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.