Knock On Wood Sayings

#1. Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

Patton Oswalt

#2. HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!

J.K. Rowling

#3. Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Judith Viorst

#4. Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards

Charles Dickens

#5. I get to help people create lives that make them happier and healthier than they were yesterday. I knock on wood that my family is healthy and happy and love each other.

Daphne Oz

#6. My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

Brett Hull

#7. In Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door

Charles Dickens

#8. Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

William Kent Krueger

#9. I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

Harvey Fierstein

#10. You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.

Jeremy Clarkson

#11. I like to live. I like to dance. I like to eat. I like to work and I like my family. I like to enjoy. And.. knock on wood.. it's nice that I can live this way.

Ivana Trump

#12. Like my hairstyle?" she asked.
"It's great."
"How great?"
"Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world.

Haruki Murakami

#13. I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

Jason Akermanis

#14. The first version of everything is janky,

Alexis Ohanian

#15. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

#16. Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Leifer

#17. I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.

Jennifer Carpenter

#18. It was then I cried, cried for the fact of not having cried and for the immensity of tears yet to be shed.

Edna O'Brien

#19. The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.

Markus Zusak

#20. My problems are like waves - just as one disappears with a snarl and a hiss there's another shaping up to knock me down.

Fiona Wood

#21. My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.'
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Ernest Hemingway,

#22. Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

Vic Morrow

#23. Never try to knock on rotten wood.

Sylvia Plath

#24. Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

Robert Greene

#25. We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Ernest Hemingway,

#26. Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Anthony Edwards

#27. I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Dave Pelzer

#28. The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.

Rob Thomas

#29. I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.

Carrie Underwood

#30. I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

Evangeline Lilly

#31. You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

Michael K. Powell

#32. Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!

Giuliana Rancic

#33. Opportunity has a way of popping up without warning or planning. Always helpful were a good banker, good advice, good credit, and good karma. Knock on wood.

Tracy Ellen

#34. The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.

Peter Bofinger

#35. It's funny to me because everyone says I'm injury prone. That's hilarious to me because I've never blown a hammy or a shoulder or anything like that, knock on wood.

Bryce Harper

#36. Knock on wood is a saying for good luck. I think that started when someone went to someone's door to see if someone was home. "I hope Joe's home, knock on wood!"

Mitch Hedberg

#37. I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a monk who lives in a temple on Jusan Pond surrounded only by nature.

Kim Ki-duk

#38. I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

Cynthia Kadohata

#39. How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

Marian Keyes

#40. Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

Anais Nin

#41. It's not stupid to want to spend your life with someone. It's brave.

Nikki Logan