I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

Nick Harkaway

Nick Harkaway

Am Appalling Artist Bad Chi Cold Down Dropped Floor I Am Kickboxing Knees Knock Knocked Made Martial Me Mistake Most Once Out Right See Shocked Someone Sparring Studied Them Then Were World

Related Quotes

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

— Nick Harkaway

AppallingFearFirst

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

— Nick Harkaway

ListsLotteryMeans

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.

— Nick Harkaway

I think lots of boys sat down with 'The Three Musketeers' and felt it was a really long book, but then discovered that it's a really gripping swashbuckling story.

— Nick Harkaway

BookBoyDiscovered