Top 100 Quotes About Knocking
#1. Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.
Riff Raff
#2. I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.
Nora Roberts
#3. I saw the first episode of "The Walking Dead," and that's all I've seen. I thought it was good. I used to love zombies when I was little, but I don't like them the way I used to. I'm not knocking the show.
James Patterson
#4. Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
Joseph Conrad
#5. Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
Tertullian
#6. 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
#7. In times of crisis not one should be counted special. Everyone was human therefore equal to the same misery and misfortune and good luck as everyone else. What happened to the whole 'we gotta stick together' motto? When hard times came-a-knocking, people baled on good sense and decency.
Shelly Crane
#8. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT KNOCKING.
PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK.
Jack London
#9. I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.
Ronald Biggs
#10. Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there
Rumi
#11. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
Albert Camus
#12. 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
#13. A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.
Greg Egan
#14. When you are in the family ... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
Jacques Chirac
#15. I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved.
Russell Wilson
#16. He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
Plato
#17. When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
W.H. Davies
#18. How do you know when a lead singer's knocking at your door?" he asked. "He can't find the key and doesn't know when to come in.
Kelly Oram
#19. Just as the ocean wears away the rocks and bends the contour of the shoreline to it's will, so it washes over a man's mind, smoothing the sharp edges, knocking off the conceits, flattening the prejudices so that he is left with a different instrument with which to govern his life.
Frank Mulville
#20. 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
#21. Is there anybody there? said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door.
Walter De La Mare
#22. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil
#23. Let me get this straight," I said once I was settled securely on the rock. "I was struck by some kind of magical energy sent from Odin that shot out of the lights in the storeroom at Macy's, hitting me and knocking me into a pile of shoes? And because of that, I'm now immortal?
Amanda Carlson
#24. people knocking on the door about the census. How a person is supposed
Peter Grainger
#25. 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
#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. I'm not not looking for a girlfriend - but I'm not particularly looking for a girlfriend, either. I'm not knocking having a relationship; at the end of the day, you want to share with someone. But I just look at it as, I have the rest of my life to do that. I'm not in any rush.
Chace Crawford
#28. Don't resist! Open the door when love comes knocking.
Marty Rubin
#29. The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. ... Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil
#30. While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
Ma Jian
#31. I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.
Rose Leslie
#32. A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
Richard Prince
#34. I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
Ang Lee
#35. I mean hell,, I was literally knocking on death's door, and I still looked awesome.
Jus Accardo
#36. When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.
Tim Duncan
#37. I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.
Rachel Zucker
#38. I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
Henry David Thoreau
#40. There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today ...
Alison Krauss
#41. 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
#42. It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.
Denny Hamlin
#43. You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.
Bruce Springsteen
#44. She came out of nowhere like a two-by-four against the skull, knocking all common sense out of him and turning him into a walking woody.
Marissa Clarke
#45. I start walking toward my bike with renewed purpose.
"I don't think I need any help to knock on a door."
Carlos yells, "Be careful, my friend. The problem with knocking on doors is you're never quite sure who's going to be on the other side.
Greg Logsted
#46. People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Rufus Sewell
#47. Hurry, she breathed.
Man, talk about pressure. He was supposed to get it up while demon hordes were trying to kill him, and Satan himself was knocking at the door.
Larissa Ione
#48. He growled and stood up. "There is a knocking without," he said.
"Without what?" said the Fool.
"Without the door, idiot."
The Fool gave him a worried look. "A knocking without a door?" he said suspiciously. "This isn't some kind of Zen, is it?
Terry Pratchett
#49. 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
#50. I got to go to New York Comic-Con. I've never been and I've heard it's crazy, so I'd love to see it. To be quite honest, I'd like for people to want us to be there, too. I'm hoping. I'm knocking on wood, so we'll see.
Steven Yeun
#51. I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
Derek Jeter
#52. And why were the voices there, but he knew why and he knew they would always be there, the voices, knocking at his door, taking over his house.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#53. Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...
Ravi Howard
#54. See the beauty in all things big and small. Love life like today is your last. Keep knocking until the door is opened unto you. Never lose your sense of child and wonder.
Brenda Rae Schoolcraft
#55. Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you'd been reading.
Chuck Palahniuk
#56. If we are caught by the obstacle of knowledge, even if truth comes knocking at our door, we will refuse to let it in.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#57. It's a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in.
Francisco X Stork
#58. Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.
Pope Francis
#59. As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.
Robert Griffin III
#60. You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.
Lucille Clifton
#61. If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.
Ben Feldman
#62. You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there's a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them."
"And there's a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open."
Ash & Urian
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#63. 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
#64. An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#65. shards of glass spray everywhere. I take another swing, this time catching him on the side of the head, nearly knocking him back out onto
Steven Jenkins
#66. Colonel Andrews popped his head through the doorway. "Did I hear a sigh?"
Miss Charming screamed and dropped her needlework, and Charlotte jumped in her chair, knocking her knee against a marble coffee table.
Shannon Hale
#67. Everywhere I read, I see a rush for love, if it comes knocking and your not ready you'll miss it; bla bla fucking bla ... If love is, LOVE it wouldn't miss me and if it did, it wasn't worth my time to begin with. Never should the most important emotion of our journey be rushed.
Nikki Rowe
#68. A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.
David Ayer
#69. After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.
Guy Ritchie
#70. I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.
Ariel Pink
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. There was no way I was knocking on his door when I made my pizza or beans. No way in hell. In fact, I was moving the first chance I could get.
Kristen Ashley
#74. That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?
Rabindranath Tagore
#75. There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
J.K. Rowling
#76. Keep on knocking relentlessly again and again until the Lord answers
Sunday Adelaja
#77. Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was ... What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.
Graves B. Erskine
#78. Getting money from my dad is a finesse job. Luckily, I have finesse coming out of my arse. I barged into his study without knocking, marched across to his desk, and held out my hand. "Give me twenty pounds," I snapped. "I need twenty pounds. Give it to me. Now!
Sarra Manning
#79. I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.
Jonathan Vilma
#80. 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
#81. It is only when we see the worst that Man can offer, that we begin to see the best that Man still holds. If they are blinded by greed, then it's time to pick up our virtual stones so we can start knocking sense into 'em...
Faith Brashear
#82. I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!
Melissa McCarthy
#83. 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
#84. The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.
Robert Benchley
#85. I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#86. Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
C.S. Lewis
#87. A long, slow kiss. With mouths open. Teeth knocking. Tongues tangling. The kind my brother Marsh used to call a Saturday Night Special.
Merline Lovelace
#88. I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
Janis Ian
#89. We got it." Val grinned and lifted her fist. "Wonder twin powers activate!"
Ruth grinned back, knocking her fist into Val's. "Shape of two fucking lunatics.
Holly Black
#90. Now, I was well aware that certain sports required certain modes of dress for protection, but I failed to see how wearing a sleeveless blouse on the course qualified as a safety hazard. God forbid the sight of my bare shoulders should send male golfers into a tizzy, knocking balls everywhere.
Kelley Armstrong
#91. Led Zeppelin was the rock band's rock band, but it was Plant who made it special. He had the knack of taking a seemingly inconsequential string of words, adding a searing shriek, and knocking the listener back on his heels. This was no less impressive on stage than in the restaurant.
Andre The BFG
#92. A short story is a messenger from beyond mere thought, that wanders the Earth knocking on doors, praying for a soul that will let it in.
Richard Small
#93. You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.
Swami Vivekananda
#94. Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
Graham Greene
#95. In one of the buildings where April lived, the girls befriended the kids who lived upstairs. "At first it was nice; but other times, it just felt like every time we got home, they were knocking on the door. And it stopped having that sort of safe-haven feeling to it.
Bella DePaulo
#96. 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
#97. We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
Victoria Osteen
#98. Why are you knocking at every door ?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart.
Rumi
#99. What Dougie had actually said was You shouldn't get too up your own arse about being a dad. You get a wee man or a wee lassie to play with for a bit and the next thing you know there's this superfluous person knocking about who doesn't seem to know much about you, but it's all your fault.
James Meek
#100. When you first approached me, all I could think was that life didn't work that way. The most beautiful boy in the universe doesn't come knocking on the grisly recluse's door. If I wrote that plot, I'd be laughed off Goodreads.
Eli Easton
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