Door Knocker Quotes

#1. I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

Katy Perry

#2. Where do vanished objects go?"
"Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall.
"Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Nevertheless, an uneasy suspicion lurked that he could jangle the knocker on a door to forgotten places in her psyche. A door she had no intention of opening - even a tiny crack.

Jen Yates

#4. He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like a great tin drum.

Christopher Bram

#5. The God who impoverished himself is also the God of abundance, and somehow, perhaps at times nonsensically, Christians are called to live out of an ethic not of scarcity but of abundance - an abundance that extends both to the homeless neighbor and to the artist neighbor. . .

Lauren Winner

#6. Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

Bent Saether

#7. It scared me how much he affected me, and I don't even think he was trying all that hard.

Kelly Oram

#8. A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.

Sei Shonagon

#9. Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

Rand Paul

#10. Am I kin to Sorrow,
That so oft
Falls the knocker of my door -
Neither loud nor soft,
But as long accustomed -
Under Sorrow's hand?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#11. He has exchanged part of his spirit for just the will to live.

Sarah Noffke

#12. FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.

Rodney Erickson

#13. When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Victor Hugo

#14. I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

Augustus William Hare

#15. We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.

Ezra Taft Benson

#16. I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

Lasse Hallstrom

#17. But there was nothing on the back of the door, except the screws and nuts that held the knocker on, so he said "Pooh, pooh!" and closed it with a bang.

Charles Dickens

#18. Oh sure, I'm her husband. That's what the record says. I'm the three white steps and the bug green front door and the brass knocker you rap one long and two short and the maid lets you into the hundred-dollar whorehouse.

Raymond Chandler

#19. Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

A.A. Milne

#20. Doors opened everywhere. Maybe one day, the children of this world who had gone to that world to save themselves would see a door that didn't fit right with the walls around it, something with a doorknob made of a moon, or a knocker that winked. Maybe they could still go home,

Seanan McGuire