#knock

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? ↗

— Eliza Cook

#cynic #down #fairy #frown #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

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

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

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it. ↗

— David Storey

#amusement #being #enjoy #field #football

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#difficult #guy #honest #i #i think

Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical. ↗

— David Lloyd

#bring #chaos #down #during #government

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything. ↗

— Gary Locke

#consider #down #everything #guy #home

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down. ↗

— David McNally

#down #enemy #get #how #knocked