Knocking Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  Doors, People, Doe

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• I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.

  James Cagney

  Two, Three, Actors

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• There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today.

  Alison Krauss

  Doors, Feelings, Today

  Song: Every Time You Say Goodbye, Album: Every Time You Say Goodbye, 1992

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• There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it. It's a pleasure to make a living that way. It's pleasure and then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. It's not important what I consider myself to be, but I consider myself to be a portrait photographer.

  Richard Avedon

  Fashion, Important, Way

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• Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

  Dale Dauten

  People, Lawyer, Linebackers

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• I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

  Emily Blunt

  Inspirational, Dance, Home

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• It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, People, World

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• The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween

  Andrew Spano

  Sex, Children, Halloween

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• Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.

  Michael Copps

  Halloween, Doors, Today

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• Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.'

  Chelsea Handler

  Wall, Successful, Empowering

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• 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

  Thinking, Doe, Nerves

  "The Honeymooner". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Motherhood, Apples

  "Why Positive Thinking Is Bad for You" by Srikumar S. Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Running, Lying, Believe

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1117, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

  George Ade

  Opportunity, Men, Doors

  George Ade (1915). “Knocking the neighbors”

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• Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process.

  George Soros

  Country, Swings, Balls

  "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered". Book by George Soros, 1998.

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• The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Young Generation, Doors, Generations

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “The Master Builder”, p.46, Henrik Ibsen

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• I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

  Magic Johnson

  Sports, Perseverance, Persistence

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• In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.

  David Hoffman

  War, Technology, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Talking, One Day, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doors, Order, America

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• 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

  Men, Soul, Sake

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

  Isak Dinesen

  Ideas, Doors, Modesty

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• 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

  Thinking, Doe, Asking

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• Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

  Joe Bradley

  Rooms, Painting, Moments

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

  Samantha Shannon

  Writing, Doors, Desperate

  "Samantha Shannon: 'Writing was a drug I couldn't stop taking'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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