Knocking Quotes - Page 11

• 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

  Games, Play, Heaven

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• As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

  John Lennon

  Children, Wall, Thinking

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• To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day.

  Jacqueline Briskin

  Writing, Eight, Important

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• Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.

  Joan Robinson

  Teacher, Errors, Long

  "Economic Philosophy". Book by Joan Robinson, p. 79 (2006 edition), 1962.

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• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  Sam Shepard

  New York, Trying, Actors

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• 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

  Heart, Soul, Trying

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.415, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, Attention, Want

  "Better than Amis?". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.

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• The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Doors, Lasts

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, Doors

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• Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Smart, People, Smoking

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, People, Economic

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I've seen a lot of highlights of Steve Kerr knocking down the big shots ... when a legend, Michael Jordan, trusted his teammate and passed it to him. He might have played two minutes, but he was ready to knock down the big shot.

  John Wall

  Two, Teammate, Legends

  Source: www.truthaboutit.net

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• We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew up in praying homes, our father launched a Christian school with nothing, basically he had some people that believed in the project but they had very little resources, and we watched our parents deal with those issues first in prayer, and then when they went out knocking on doors they saw amazing doors answered and resources come in.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Christian, Prayer, Father

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Well that's basically how we launched Sherwood Pictures, and with our films, we sat down and we had a long list of specific things that we were praying for God to provide, and then we would just deal with all those things in prayer first, and then when we went out and began knocking on doors and calling, it was clear that God was going before us and providing the way and sending the resources.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Prayer, Doors, Long

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Sometimes it wasn't even when we were knocking on doors, it would be, the phone would ring and somebody would say, "God told me to do this," and it would be exactly the perfect timing to help us with the next step of the filmmaking.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Phones, Doors, Perfect

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Needs, May, Knees

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

  Chipper Jones

  Baseball, Thinking, Earth

  Source: espn.go.com

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• You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.

  Kingsley Amis

  Sex, Cutting, Maturity

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• I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

  Grimes

  Successful, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Halloween, Doors, Stranger

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.

  Dean Wareham

  Song, Writing, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• First of all, we occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and I'm not even talking about the past occupation of them, I'm just talking about currently. And we all know that occupations, in military terms, comes down basically to policing, so you have an army basically functioning as a police force in these foreign territories as part of foreign policy. I'm not knocking that down, I'm just observing.

  Oren Moverman

  Military, Army, Past

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.

  Carice van Houten

  Insecure, America, Doors

  "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

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• If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"

  Daniel Lopatin

  Selfish, Thinking, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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