If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Related If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit t... WINSTON CHURCHILL If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f... W. C. FIELDS To have him hit a running lob on match point, that's a good shot. It's disappointing and something y... ANDY RODDICK Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don'... BRIAN MCKNIGHT They hit a bunch of shots and had a 12 or 13-point lead and then at the right time we hit four or fi... DALE DOTSON Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball... 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BRAD FELD Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. THEODORE ROOSEVELT She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.&... MISTY MAY-TREANOR A couple bad breaks, a bloop hit, then a groundball to third, ... I don't know how that's a hit -- t... BRAD PENNY Ryan hit a huge shot. It may have been a turning point. BRUCE LEIB There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From Glasgow to Sydney and back again sooner or later the earth will turn from point A to point B an... GARY F EVANS... I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you... TAYLOR LAUTNER Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct. SAM STEVENS If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. Y... 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If the guys want to do that - miss a bunt and then hit home runs - that's fin... LUIS RIVERA I don't see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is ... GREG WISE I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder. RUBEN STUDDARD I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit. TED WILLIAMS It used to be, just get up there and rip the driver as hard as you could. Now you have to think on t... ARRON OBERHOLSER I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t... T-PAIN On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a qu... LAMARR WOODLEY I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to h... KRISTEN STEWART If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can he... CHELY WRIGHT Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that t... ROY AYERS To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand wh... DIMEBAG DARRELL He's arguably the best point guard in the league. You have to be aware of him every minute he's on t... MARK SLONAKER I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Sa... OLLY MURS It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then som... KATHARINE HEPBURN I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing ... NICHOLAS HOULT I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.' DIANE KRUGER I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pict... CHRIS EVANS If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the s... JOSEPH MORGAN I hit an exercise - arms and legs, a set of curls, a set of tricep pushdowns, and then grab the bar ... DOLPH ZIGGLER Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't h... BRIAN MCKNIGHT A wave would hit and the pup went under. The mother pushed it up with her nose, and then another wav... JANE MACDONALD Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to ... EVANDER HOLYFIELD I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I real... ALESSIA CARA I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to h... DENNIS QUAID - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I... 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JAKE ARRIETA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I decided to be an idiot and go at the left side of the green and try to hit it close. I hit it in t... LUCAS GLOVER You don?t really hit everything in free agency. If you try to build your team through free agency, y... JOE BANNER Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. BILLIE JEAN KING I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' an... FREDDIE PRINZE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It’s my game. I pitch, I hit, I... RAY BRADBURY If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first t... TOM DOUGLAS Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a ... DOROTHY FIELDS I thought it was a clean hit. But there are no regrets and I make no apologies. I think it's a tough... BRIAN RUSSELL You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a diffe... BOB CORKER I don't give players a chance to hit me. ERIC DICKERSON You can't take him (James) on full court because he's an aggressive driver and you can't sag off him... DAMON JONES
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WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. WINSTON CHURCHILL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo... WINSTON CHURCHILL It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is neces... WINSTON CHURCHILL You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. WINSTON CHURCHILL Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. WINSTON CHURCHILL The price of greatness is responsibility. WINSTON CHURCHILL All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor... WINSTON CHURCHILL Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. WINSTON CHURCHILL In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ... WINSTON CHURCHILL If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have... WINSTON CHURCHILL I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours... WINSTON CHURCHILL The first quality that is needed is audacity. WINSTON CHURCHILL If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels rou... WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. WINSTON CHURCHILL Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. WINSTON CHURCHILL If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. WINSTON CHURCHILL For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and ar... WINSTON CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 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WINSTON CHURCHILL A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ... WINSTON CHURCHILL Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. WINSTON CHURCHILL My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was s... WINSTON CHURCHILL