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

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

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

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

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter

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

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.
Robert Smith

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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.
Nat King Cole

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.
Mickey Spillane

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.
Don King

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.
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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.
Lewis J. Bates

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

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

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

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

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne