It's quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.
Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.
Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would offered much in the way of determined opposition. William Herndon said that they always thanked the Lord when a corporation came knocking at their office door to hire them.
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.
Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.
First of all, we occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and I'm not even talking about the past occupation of them, I'm just talking about currently. And we all know that occupations, in military terms, comes down basically to policing, so you have an army basically functioning as a police force in these foreign territories as part of foreign policy. I'm not knocking that down, I'm just observing.
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.
No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.
When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes. '
At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.
Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in. . . We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy.
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.
If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody here? Am I still able to communicate with other musicians?"