Knocking Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

  Bill Mollison

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

  Dolores Huerta

  Doors, People, Firsts

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed the deterioration of the U.S. military in the past eight years and explained how he's going to rebuild it and why we need to, and it's a very tough audience. It's an expressly military audience, and they are of course listening for any sign that he's not really genuine here. I think, knocking this out of the park as far as that audience is concerned.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• 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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• OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

  Tom Peters

  Opportunity, Doors

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• Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Idols, People, Woods

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• Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

  Mordecai Richler

  Self, Scene, Masters

  Mordecai Richler (1970). “Canadian writing today”, Penguin Books

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• 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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• Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Thinking, Cost, Want

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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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• Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Doors, Feminist, Typical

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Holiday, Surprise, Window

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.

  Matt Nathanson

  Song, Wall, Party

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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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• 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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• Consider Brazilian cosmetics brand Natura, which deploys a direct-sales force of more than 718,000. By knocking on doors, it has established a vibrant network of brand supporters.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Doors, Cosmetics, Direct Sales

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Cooking, Chef, Forget

  Source: www.crushable.com

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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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