#knock

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#been #broken #called #clear #crooked

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray? ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#best #get #knees #knocks #life

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

#cork #i #inward #knocks #must

I've been knocked down a lot of times. ↗

— James Brown

#down #i #knocked #lot #times

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

#beginning #believe #best #come #door

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

#death #did #going #instead #knocking

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#back #bolt #burglar #by the time #chain

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

— Frankie Valli

#comes #contemporary #doing #i #knocks

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#compete #go #i #impress #knock

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#career #confidences #early #knocking #out