Quotes About Knocking

And there was nothing in his life he could remember fearing as much as he feared knocking on the bright blue door of that old stone house.

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.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

In contrast, Midgley's TEL patent—titled, unhelpfully, "Method and means for using motor fuels"—filed on April 15, 1922 (and issued on February 23, 1926), gave the company full control of an effective low-volume additive that could be dispensed at a very low cost: a penny's worth of TEL would prevent knocking from consuming a gallon of gasoline (fig. 2.3).

This left refiners with two major choices: either reformulate gasolines with increased shares of hydrocarbons that prevent knocking (known as the BTEX complex) or turn to ethanol. Initially, the BTEX complex became the leading substitute: this mixture of hydrocarbons—benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene—present in liquid fuels is separated by refining and added to gasoline (which contains a limited volume of these aromatics) to boost its antiknocking capacity.

You have knocked at every door? she asked. Yes. Have you knocked at that one there? No. Knock there.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

The doors go shutting far in the distance, gently knocking like the pulse of a heart.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

A matter of pragmatism; chemically knocking someone senseless is usually quieter, less messy and less risky to the assailant than killing them.

If you could have had a fighter with David Price's body and my mind, you would have had the Great White Hope the United Kingdom has been waiting for for years. With my will in his body, we would have had this giant Scouser knocking everybody out.

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

Who answers when you knock on wood?

Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one.

But there are many kinds of tigers; some roam in jungles of human desires. No spiritual benefit accrues by knocking beasts unconscious. Rather be victor over the inner prowlers." "May we hear, sir, how you changed from a tamer of wild tigers to a tamer of wild passions?

That is not the way of God. It is asking, it is seeking, it is knocking.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

Whence is that knocking? How is't with me when every noise appals me? What hands are here! Ha - they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood         Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.