Hits Quotes

You learn more from the flops than you do from the hits.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.