Knocks Quotes

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.

Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

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 doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.