#knock

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

— Mason Cooley

#answer #knocks #name #opportunity #opportunity knocks

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#art #brick #brick wall #britain #cutbacks

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#get #give #hug #just #knock

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#knocks #learn #life #most #you

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#bottle #home #home town #horse #i

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#her #kept #knocked #male #out

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#check #checks #come #eight #get

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#day #developing #earth #fact #hundred

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was having to knock the door down to get in. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#back #bit #bowl #door #down

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#been #being #down #had #i