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Quotes About Knock

My' she said. 'We're lucky that you found that place.' 'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
~ Ernest Hemingway
about to knock again when the inside door is pulled open to reveal a sinewy woman dressed in what appears to be layers of old sweaters and an ankle-length denim skirt. Her long hair held back in an elastic that leaves the ends bunched and brittle as the head of a broom. Brown eyes wide and alive
~ Andrew Pyper
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
~ Joel Edgerton
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
~ Robin McKinley
You're not dressed like a Mormon." "So you go knock on the door. Just in case. If he's there, tell him you're a Mormon who is coincidentally also in the snowplow business, and you want to talk to him about insurance against global warming.
~ Lee Child
If God lived on earth," goes a sardonic Yiddish saying, "people would knock out all His windows.
~ Leo Rosten
There was the Queen, and then there was Seretse Khama and our own people. That is called history, you see." "But who asked them here?" The aunt shook her head. "There are some guests who do not knock." "That is very rude." "Yes," said the aunt.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.
~ John Guare
I crept across the hall and knocked on the door. There weren't any screams or anything coming from inside. Good sign or bad? Hard to tell—this was my first felony and I didn't know the proper procedure.
~ Joanna Wylde
Soviet joke about the terrible anxiety Ivan and his wife Masha experienced when the knock on the door came—and their relief when they learned it was only the neighbor come to tell them that the building was on fire.
~ Anne Applebaum
I clutch, all language vanished from my mind. We knock each other over in a violent embrace.
~ Anne Carson
The University of Memphis didn't have the flashy profile or the national exposure. It's a great university. I love the offense. I love the atmosphere, the big city. They have everything I want. The only knock against them is they are not a great team.
~ DeAngelo Williams
You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
~ Lorrie Moore
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, recieveth. And he that seeketh, findeth. And to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
~ Earl Nightingale
A zealous locksmith died of late,And did arrive at heaven gate,He stood without and would not knock,Because he meant to pick the lock.
~ Anonymous
Ask, and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you. (Mat. 7:7).
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
There was a dull knock at the door. "Come in, come in, all that is outside!" he cried
~ Franz Kafka
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
~ Jesus Christ
Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical.
~ David Lloyd
Shame on you," she said to Jack. "I'm sorry, Melinda. But someone had to knock the shit out of this asshole at least once, and if Preacher had done that, this idiot would never walk again." "Well, if you get into trouble, don't come crying to me," she said, and turned to follow Paige and Preacher into Doc's. *
~ Robyn Carr
You are the most boring teacher ever." He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.
~ Richelle Mead
We knock upon silence for an answering music.
~ Archibald MacLeish
The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
~ Frederic Brown