Knocking Down Quotes

#1. There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no scientists picketing outside of churches.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.

Chris Copeland

#3. Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Dave Barry

#4. Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist organization. And clearly it's gone from blowing themselves up to knocking down the World Trade Center.

Michael Scheuer

#5. Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

Emily Bronte

#6. Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

Osamu Dazai

#7. Only fools skirmish in their backyard when war is knocking down their front door.

Stuart Hill

#8. There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'

Candice Olson

#9. When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.

Tim Duncan

#10. Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

Carroll O'Connor

#11. I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts."
"I thought it might be a nice change of pace for you. All that knocking down of doors and burning down of buildings must get tiring."
"I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.

Jim Butcher

#12. She says this like people are constantly knocking down our door for a nice, dry, warm place to stay, when, in fact, we are the strays.

Gayle Forman

#13. Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

Mary Russell Mitford

#14. Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.'

Chelsea Handler

#15. Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford

Charles Fishman

#16. Group idea sessions rarely work. Why? Members too busy knocking down insights to hear the tap-tap of revelation

Phillip Gary Smith

#17. Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.

John Trudell

#18. I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Magic Johnson

#19. There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

Gary W. Keller

#20. Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.

Fred Barnes

#21. She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention."
"And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.

Kristin Cashore

#22. He is entering through the darkest passage of my heart, without even knocking at the door. A tree of forbidden fruit, walking down close to tempt me.

Samreen Ahsan

#23. One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

Patrick Fugit

#24. You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

Bruce Springsteen

#25. It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.

Denny Hamlin

#26. Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't, but every day you try. That's what painting is.

Zibby Oneal

#27. Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

Orson Scott Card

#28. This entire generation seems to have become pussies, you know? Nobody seems to enjoy themselves much anymore.They are all knocking each other down for enjoying themselves.

Lemmy Kilmister

#29. If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

Woodrow Wilson

#30. They're gonna keep knocking away until all this comes crashing down. But I'm not gonna ever crash. I'm in control.

Rihanna

#31. I had to hand it to Elodie. If I'd been in control of my body, there would have been flailing and knocking things over, and I probably would have caught my clothes in the drawer. But Elodie smoothly closed the drawer without a sound, and sat down in Lara's chair like she belonged there.

Rachel Hawkins

#32. God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#33. Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

Dale Dauten

#34. You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

Michelle Rodriguez

#35. The public loves to create a hero ... Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

Grace Metalious

#36. I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Emanuel Steward

#37. Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into
a hole. "It's you."
"You were expecting someone else?"
I asked. "Am I interrupting your social
calendar?" I made a big show of
glancing around the empty room. "I don't
want to keep you from the mob of fans
beating down your door.

Richelle Mead

#38. Is God somehow responsible for the suffering of this world? In this indirect way, yes. But giving a child a pair of ice skates, knowing that he may fall, is a very different matter from knocking him down on the ice.

Philip Yancey

#39. Knocking me down is easy. To keep me down you'll need backup!

Judi Young

#40. I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

Erin McCarthy

#41. Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!

Greg Plitt

#42. When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.

Pete Rose

#43. Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Seneca The Younger

#44. I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Dennis Quaid

#45. I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant.

Bernard Hopkins

#46. You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Lord Chesterfield

#47. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

Wendell Berry

#48. I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'

Ireland Baldwin

#49. I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.

Matt Nathanson

#50. Harry was just as interested as everyone else to see what was in this large parcel, and was amazed when the owls soared down and dropped it right in front of him, knocking his bacon to the floor.

J.K. Rowling

#51. You just go ahead and keep on lining up your fan club because I am always going to be there to keep knocking them down.

Colleen Houck

#52. For it is love, that even after knocking you down on your knees, holds up your chin and makes you rise again, to become yet another better version of yourself.

Khaddam Ahmed Khan

#53. Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#54. They do." Apollo's eyes narrowed on me. "But I was hoping there was something knocking around in her brain that held the answer to that little problem But - "
Apollo smacked a hand down on my leg. "Must you always be moving some part of your body?

Jennifer L. Armentrout