Knocks Quotes

230 quotes by 205 authors

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone… — Robert Smith
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. — Mae West
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific… — J D Salinger
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy â€” to be a man who is brisk about his food and… — Soren Kierkegaard
There isnâ€™t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and… — J D Salinger
Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded. — Flann O'Brien
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some… — Richard M. Nixon
Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home… — David Sedaris
Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ] — Haruki Murakami
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I am an American, Chicago born â€“ Chicago, that somber city â€“ and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make… — Saul Bellow
They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when… — James M. Barrie
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is… — Boris Pasternak
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back.… — Sara Gruen
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durinâ€™s Day will shine upon the key-hole. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren… — D. H. Lawrence
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. — Madeleine L'Engle
When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure… — Sarah Vowell
When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that… — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Who Wrote These Knocks Quotes

205 authors contributed a total of 230 Knocks Quotes, led by these top contributors: