Knocking Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

  Condola Rashad

  Doe, Television, Littles

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• Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Doors, Brothels

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Spinning, Crash

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• Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Doors, Satire

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone's door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door or call.

  Jim Rohn

  Opportunity, Doors, May

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

  Bruce Springsteen

  Relationship, Use, Kicks

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• Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

  Carl Perkins

  Past, Night, Doors

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• 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

  Eight, Games, Boxing

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• I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

  Emeli Sande

  Believe, Doors, People

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• When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Buddhism, Doors

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• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.

  Markus Zusak

  Growing Up, Father, Bored

  FaceBook post by Markus Zusak from Jan 27, 2012

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• I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

  Alberta Hunter

  Fun, Mean, Trying

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• You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.

  Orrin Woodward

  Opportunity, Busy, Ifs

  Twitter post from Nov 16, 2015

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• Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.

  Sharon Jaynes

  Faith, Answers

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• I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.' I'd open the door and they would say to me, 'Pack your bags. We realized you have no talent.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Dream, Doors, Insecurity

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• But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.

  Will Rogers

  Business, People, Devil

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• 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

  Money, Men, Doors

  William Henry Davies, “Money”

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• If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Doors, Waste

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• People can do whatever they want to, but I'm more pro-hetero. I'm not knocking it - I have friends that are gay. It's just that it's not my cup of tea, l guess. That's all. People can do what they want.

  Axl Rose

  Gay, People, Tea

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• When I saw Tyson knocking everybody out on TV, I thought, He's goooood. But when I saw him in person, he didn't look as awesome.

  Lennox Lewis

  Saws, Tvs, Looks

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• 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

  Writing, Doors, Taverns

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.

  Colin Wilson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Car

  "Introduction to the New Existentialism" by Colin Wilson, (p. 92), 1966.

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• There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

  Fred Hoyle

  Two, Together, Atoms

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