Quotes About The Knothole

#1. Things run along pretty smoothly until your kid reaches thirteen. That's the time you need to stick 'em in a barrel, hammer the lid down nice and snug, and feed 'em through the knothole. And then, about the time he turns sixteen, plug up the knothole!2

David Jeremiah

#2. Remember that what you have won or lost is your own doing, and spare me your regrets and recriminations.

George R R Martin

#3. I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

Lenny Bruce

#5. Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

Park Geun-hye

#6. Some people just shouldn't speak.

Elizabeth Johnson

#7. After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Boy George

#8. Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

Robert McCammon

#9. We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

Octavio Paz

#10. I don't think any of my kids' books talk down to kids.

Roz Chast

#11. There was a small knothole in one of the boards, and Coraline spent an afternoon dropping pebbles and acorns through the hole and waiting, and counting, until she heard the plop as they hit the water.

Neil Gaiman

#12. The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

Frances Harper

#13. You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

George Saunders

#14. Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.

Stephen Pagliuca

#15. There's an old saying: peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed. Was there ever a bigger knothole in human history than the internet?

Stephen King

#16. The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#17. Divine election is a theme mentioned often in sacred Scripture. God has chosen to reveal this truth for the spiritual nurture and growth of the people of God.

John Samson

#18. If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

Lee Radziwill

#19. Damn, her voice was awfully sexy for being a tree. Coop wasn't sure he was comfortable with that thought. Probably a good time to head out, before he started trying to hump a knothole or something.

Cindy Spencer Pape

#20. peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed.

Stephen King

#21. You've taught me a great deal about stillness.

Joey W. Hill

#22. Troube comes when a person starts asking for money; it never does what they think it will do. And then there's the problem of destiny. Things never turn out well when you try to outwit destiny. Only fools do that.

Kate Milford