#knock

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #irrational

You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head. ↗

— Ray Walston

#could #get #head #how #hungry

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

#cells #communicate #communication #each #every

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

— Mae West

#every man #give #knocks #man #opportunity

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

— Jeanette Winterson

#gives #hard #knocks #life #stay

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#copying #different #else #i #i think

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#chris #down #good #good people #great

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

— Whoopi Goldberg

#hard #i #knocks #like #listen

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#defense #department #holding #hostage #idea

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out. ↗

— Adrienne Gusoff

#knocked #opportunity #out #threw