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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. -- Dave Barry
Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail. -- Clive James
There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out. -- Henny Youngman
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door. -- Joan Lunden
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. -- Simone Weil
After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people. -- Guy Ritchie
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station. -- Johnny Cash
Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles -- J. K. Rowling
Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down! -- Greg Plitt
Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence. -- Jarod Kintz
Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen. -- Jarod Kintz
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out. -- Roger Daltrey
I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else. -- Jimmy Swaggart
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You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down. -- Lord Chesterfield
When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots. -- Tim Duncan
People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. -- Rufus Sewell
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. -- Srikumar Rao
I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking. -- Janis Ian
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death. -- Geezer Butler
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do. -- Kathleen Winsor
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day. -- Jon Fishman
My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play. -- Freddy Adu
Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. -- Richard Avedon
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman. -- Jimmy Swaggart
I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees. -- Derek Jeter
Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic. -- Dennis Quaid
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. -- Horace Mann
I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given. -- Anthony Hamilton
I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off. -- Ronald Biggs
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone. -- Karl Pilkington
I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic. -- Dennis Quaid
I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. -- Ang Lee
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy! -- Joseph Conrad
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
I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved. -- Russell Wilson
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. -- Sachin Tendulkar
My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren't touring together, we'd be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly. -- Luke Bryan
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. -- Marla Gibbs
My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' -- Zooey Deschanel
I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible. -- Luke Evans
Your first kiss is destiny knocking. -- Alice Sebold
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. -- Jimmy Swaggart
Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins. -- Riff Raff
The younger generation will come knocking at my door. -- Henrik Ibsen
There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today... -- Alison Krauss
OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door. -- Tom Peters
When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking. -- Ransom Riggs
The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering. -- Moses ibn Ezra
You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities. -- Orrin Woodward
If opportunity doesn't come knocking at your door, build a brand. -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down. -- Dale Dauten
It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers. -- Denny Hamlin
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking. -- George Ade
You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying. -- Michelle Rodriguez
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness. -- Albert Camus
Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door. -- Carl Perkins
A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick -- John Arlott
Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word. -- Sharon Jaynes
When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say Jesus, it's for you. -- Robin Jones Gunn
When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you. -- Auliq Ice
Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart. -- Pope Francis
When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you. -- Robin Jones Gunn
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. -- Neil Gaiman
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. -- Lucille Clifton
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting. -- Paul Simonon
No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking. -- Jeff Cooper
No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention. -- Tibor Fischer
Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Behind the door lies the question: Have you ever heard of a thing called knocking? -- Jarod Kintz
Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there -- Rumi
Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.' -- Chelsea Handler
The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last. -- C. S. Lewis
You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things. -- Bill Mollison
Why are you knocking at every door ? Go, knock at the door of your own heart. -- Rumi
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. -- Richard Power
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things. -- Richard Prince
You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you. -- Terrence Howard
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash. -- Seneca the Younger
I'm not opposed to anything. If an opportunity comes across, I'll answer the door if it comes knocking. -- Rob Brown
A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture. -- David Ayer
There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together. -- Fred Hoyle
Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church. -- Paul Washer
When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges. -- Joel Osteen
Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac? -- C. S. Lewis
Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness. -- Osamu Dazai
You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down. -- Bruce Springsteen
We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats. -- Victoria Osteen
They're gonna keep knocking away until all this comes crashing down. But I'm not gonna ever crash. I'm in control. -- Rihanna
If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it. -- W. C. Fields
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system. -- Al Capone
I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago. -- Ariel Pink
The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over. -- Connie Willis
The last few days have already taken their toll - knocking him around like a pinball in a scoreless game. -- Joseph MacKinnon
Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? -- Pope Francis
Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results. -- Samuel Beckett
Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation. -- Mordecai Richler
Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things. -- Scott D. Anthony
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly. -- C. S. Lewis
If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer. -- John Climacus
I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door. -- Nick Hornby
The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'? -- Pope Francis
For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls. -- Simon Van Booy
All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust. -- George R. R. Martin
Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door. -- Jacob Bronowski
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. -- C. S. Lewis
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened. -- Sam Shepard
Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens -- Joseph Gerber
Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door. -- Jared Leto
You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball. -- Chris Copeland
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
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
Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance. -- Paul Levy
You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice. -- Donna Lynn Hope
I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come. -- Pat Buckley
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. -- Rumi

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