#knocks

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there. ↗

— Robert Smith

#any #anyone #band #case #door

Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#compassion #enemy #extreme #friend #hard-knocks

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#crap #guy #hammer #head #him

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

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

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

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