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  • As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles. -- Nick Frost
  • Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. -- A. E. Housman
  • I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. -- Frances Farmer
  • Dude, that was a knuckle buster brother. -- Joe Teti
  • I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses. -- Carlos Santana
  • I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment. -- Trish Stratus
  • You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore. -- Christoph Waltz
  • I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago. -- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. -- Ben Bernanke
  • Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur. -- Sydney Smith
  • You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. -- Claire Tomalin
  • They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. -- Gene Fowler
  • They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. -- Gene Fowler
  • When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles. -- Johnny Cash
  • I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill. -- Chuck Zito
  • Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're the ones spitting on their knuckles and hurling salt everywhere. -- Gregg Henry
  • You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. -- Francis Ford Coppola
  • I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed. -- Ed Rendell
  • The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it. -- Jon McGregor
  • Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails. -- Brian Wesbury
  • I love rings, but I can't wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife. -- Justin Tuck
  • The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here. -- Sylvia Plath
  • You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. "Memorize it. Then write it down for him. -- Markus Zusak
  • I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away -- Julian Bond
  • It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip. -- Mark Twain
  • After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences. -- Andy Serkis
  • Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become. -- Marc Ian Barasch
  • I like the crunch sound of snow under my boots. Better than stepping on knuckles. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. -- Charles Duhigg
  • What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too. -- Libba Bray
  • There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives. -- Ed Parker
  • Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip club. -- Brad Wilkerson
  • Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars. -- Carl Sandburg
  • Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back. -- Lori Foster
  • She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!) -- Billie Joe Armstrong
  • But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles. -- Saul Bellow
  • The only time early bloomer has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged. -- Colson Whitehead
  • The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged. -- Colson Whitehead
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