Top 100 Knock'em Quotes
#1. I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'
Chuck Zito
#2. I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.
Valerie Simpson
#3. I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will
Chuck Liddell
#4. I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.
Will Rogers
#5. Now, go knock 'em dead."
I assume he means that I should make a good impression at the party, and not to follow the literal interpretation of that expression.
Bree Despain
#6. I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
Bear Bryant
#7. I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali
#8. Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.
Robert Krulwich
#9. It wouldn't be long until I made my declaration. I didn't just need my position to be clear, I needed to blind Whitney with blazing fireballs of glory. Real hardcore knock-em-down shit.
Rachael Wade
#10. Wow. You guys are like a broken record. Don't you ever get tired of the whole 'knock 'em our and drag 'em back to the cave' routine? 'Cause I swear, Cro-Magnons were more subtle.
Rachel Vincent
#11. The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.
Bruce Lee
#12. Always check the peephole before answering the door. You never know who's on the other side.
Translation: serial killers knock before attacking.
Katie McGarry
#13. The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.
Joe Namath
#14. With a knock, a slim army lieutenant came in, introduced himself as James Benford, and handed Groves a briefing summary folder. "You have to approve these, sir." Karl
Gregory Benford
#15. So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?
Gertrude Berg
#16. If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's Roger Ailes who will go after youThe person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen, trust me.
Bill O'Reilly
#17. Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst
#18. I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.
Tyson Fury
#19. To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
George Herman
#20. The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it's a door. Your heart beats harder when you knock.
China Mieville
#21. In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
Bryan Robson
#22. Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!
Greg Plitt
#23. Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes.
Lord Buckley
#24. I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
B. D. Wong
#25. Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it ... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.
James Lovelock
#26. I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.
William, Saroyan
#27. 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
#28. You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
Lorrie Moore
#29. Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.
Christopher Pike
#30. Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
Patton Oswalt
#31. I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.
George W. Bush
#32. Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
Kin Hubbard
#33. Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole
We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold'
Jumped behind the door, put the orgy on hold
Killed em both and smeared blood on the white Bronco
Eminem
#34. An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.
Joan Robinson
#35. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
#36. The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
Odetta
#37. See, this divine lover is at the gate. He does not merely knock, but He remains there knocking. He calls to the soul.
Francis De Sales
#38. Oh my God, dude! You were beginning to freak me out. Don't do that to me! What do you really need to talk to me about?" His laughter faded when Thomas didn't crack a smile. "Tommy, knock it off.
Jamie McGuire
#39. The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
Marco Brambilla
#40. I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep.
Elizabeth Taylor
#41. Therefore, a search for God's will should begin on your knees. He will meet you there. Remember that Jesus promised, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7).
James C. Dobson
#42. I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.
David Foster Wallace
#43. Jacinda,
Sorry, but I had to leave town for a farm thing. Try not to knock any other teachers unconscious while I'm gone.
See you soon (but not soon enough),
Will
Sophie Jordan
#44. I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.
Neil Burger
#46. I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.
Erin Davie
#47. My chest aches and swells at the same time. Wow - happy and sad will just about knock you over when they hit together.
Tudor Robins
#48. Always knock a wall down, and build a nice walk out of it.
Nora Roberts
#49. We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon.
Dave Barry
#50. There's a stigma about being vegan. Some people say it doesn't taste great. Don't knock it until you try it!
Tia Mowry
#51. We always get help we ask for.
"Knock and the door will open"
Make sure it's the right door.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#52. His hand cupped her cheek as he lowered his head to hers. Just before their lips touched, a light knock sounded on the door.
Lia Davis
#53. Never Ever Knock My Dignity. Underneath our life we all are same. We sleep once in a day and wake up
Loud and Clear!
Sundeep Lal
#54. The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to shout in the studio, but I can't knock the Cavern or the other clubs because they gave me my strong voice.
Cilla Black
#55. Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."
Rita Rudner
#56. I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
Santigold
#57. On a winter night I hear the Easter bell:
I knock on graves and quicken the dead,
Until at last in a grave I see - myself.
(Winter Sonnets: XI)
Vyacheslav Ivanov
#58. A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
Mark Twain
#59. Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too short to be waiting.
Anthony Liccione
#60. That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
Ann Patchett
#62. It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!
David Beckham
#63. If opportunity doesn't knock your door,then build a new one.
Glenda Radores
#64. The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader
#65. You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.
Chevy Chase
#66. One of the most loving things you can ever do for your spouse is to pray for them. "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7).
Alex Kendrick
#67. She had become the demon, only too much, and too fast. I had an incredible urge to knock her on her ass, take her down a few notches. Turning her just got higher on the priority scale. That's if I didn't kill her first.
L.J. Kentowski
#68. We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have.
Shane McAnally
#69. You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.
David Levithan
#70. To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.
Henry Rollins
#71. We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.
John Madden
#72. Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry
Jane Rainwater
#73. You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.
Rumi
#74. Each leg of our trip gets worse and worse. I wish someone would knock me unconscious until the madness ended.
Victoria Prince
#75. Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!
Jean Genet
#76. I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
Maeve Binchy
#77. You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty.
Nicole Krauss
#78. Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.
Tavi Gevinson
#79. I'm sorry, 'herbal medicine', "Oh, herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years!" Indeed it has, and then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became 'medicine'. And the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri, so knock yourselves out.
Dara O Briain
#80. Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of their shift to go home, take an uninterrupted shower, and have a normal conversation with someone.
Laurie Graham
#81. Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.
Tallulah Bankhead
#82. When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.
Torii Hunter
#83. Today, love came knocking at my window. To share with dad such a confusing, yet wonderful occasion would be great. Still, I keep this to myself. Who knows? In the future maybe dad and I can share more than silence but not until dad allows love to knock for me at the front door.
Anthony Paull
#84. If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table
Steve Henry
#85. Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
Ben Affleck
#86. They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't.
Taylor Swift
#87. This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss.
A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.
Carol Fragale Brill
#88. Then she'll know I'll want to knock her senseless if she so much as looks at me.
Kristin Cashore
#89. The traceur doesn't knock an obstacle out of the way unless it's absolutely necessary. He meanders his way past it. Over. Under. Through. Around. He gets past not by moving the obstacle but by moving himself. That is parkour, and working this job I use every technique I know just to get it done.
Sam A. Patel
#90. He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way - hand frozen in the air.
Anne Ursu
#91. Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical.
David Lloyd
#92. Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.
Michael Shnayerson
#93. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
Winston Churchill
#94. You are the driver steering your own dreams. Choose to knock down whatever crosses your way.
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. Sanguine: You mind if I take pictures? Brought my own camera and everythin'
Valkyrie: Knock yourself out
Sanguine: Thanks
Valkyrie: No, really, run head first into a wall and knock yourself out
Derek Landy
#96. Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.
James Russell Lowell
#98. Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Horace Mann
#99. I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.
Carl Froch
#100. Yes. Knock and it shall be opened to you. The gift of wisdom can be found, if one wishes to search for it, and is willing to be altered by it. It is not a gift given without cost or transformation, nor one to be used lightly.
Faith Hunter
