Knock Kneed Quotes

But I'm just Southern enough and polite enough to say 'bless her heart' instead of 'screw that knock-kneed bitch.'" "The sweeter you bless somebody, the more you hate them. But nobody can get mad at you, because you're just being a good Christian lady," Frankie said, her eyes wide and guileless. ~ Molly Harper

At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for
except for the money. I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled
all the things that the culture tells you, from preschool on, will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you. I got some stature, the respect of other writers, even a low-grade fame. The culture says these things will save you, as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. But the culture lies. ~ Anne Lamott

The knock-kneed brown moose, a tired group of ten, yards ahead of her for the last three days, comfort her too. It's like following a pack of grandfathers, their large, weary eyes, red lids sagging, their gray muzzles, puckered as if the world is almost done with them but not quite yet. ~ Amy Bloom

At some point in this course, perhaps even tonight, you will read something difficult, something you only partially understand, and your verdict will be this is stupid. Will I argue when you advance that opinion in class the next day? Why would I do such a useless ting? My time with you in short, only thirty-four weeks of classes, and I will not waste it arguing about the merits of this short story or that poem. Why would I, when all such opinions are subjective, and no final resolution can ever be reached?'

Some of the kids - Gloria was one of them - now looked lost, but Pete understood exactly what Mr. Ricker, aka Ricky the Hippie, was talking about...

'Time is the answer," Mr Ricker said on the first day of Pete's sophomore year. He strode back and forth, antique bellbottoms swishing, occasionally waving his arms. "Yes! Time mercilessly culls away the is-stupid from the not-stupid."
...
"It will occur for you, young ladies and gentlemen, although I will be in your rear-view mirror by the time it happens. Shall I tell you how it happens? You will read something - perhaps 'Dulce et Decorum Est,' by Wilfred Owen. Shall we use that as an example? Why not?'

Then, in a deeper voice that sent chills up Pete's back and tightened his throat, Mr. Ricker cried, " 'Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge...' And son on. Cetra-cetra. Some of you will say, This is stupid."

~ Stephen King

That evening, she went from knock-kneed tomboy to Greek goddess in the space of twenty-two short, red-carpeted steps. ~ Suzanne Rindell

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight
No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright. ~ Joanna Newsom

I could feel the whole tunnel shake as Kampê pounded against it, roaring furiously. We didn't stick around to play knock, knock with her, though. ~ Rick Riordan

I like to wear a "Do Not Disturb" sign around my neck so that little kids can't tell me knock-knock jokes. "Hey, how ya doin'? Knock-knock." "Read the sign, punk!" ~ Mitch Hedberg

Sure. Knock yourself out." "I don't understand you." "Do what you want." "Ah." The gunslinger nodded and lay back. Knock myself out, he thought. Knock. Myself out. ~ Stephen King

Introduction Did you know that Shakespeare wrote the world's first ever knock knock joke? ~ Jack Goldstein

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke. ~ Stephen Colbert

A knock on the door you hear, a knock on your head you don't. ~ Dixie Waters

Knock knock." "Who's there?" said Alaska. I looked at her blankly. About a minute later, I got it, and laughed. ~ John Green

Knock, Knock!' [Puck] called in a high, singsong voice.
For a moment, silence. Then came a thud and a crash, as if something heavy had been hurled at the door. 'Go away!' snaled the voice from within.
'Ah, no. That's not how the joke goes,' called Puck.'I say 'knock, knock', and you're supposed to answer with 'who's there?'
'Fuck off!'
'Nope, that's still wrong ~ Julie Kagawa

I would never let myself knock out a journalist. ~ Gerard Depardieu

Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair. ~ Lois Greiman

If you persistently knock, door will definitely be opened. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knock-knock, motherfucker. ~ Jenny Lawson

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. ~ William Shakespeare

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready. ~ Bruno Mars

Our bodies knock

and we pretend like we can't hear

They knock to tell us to rest

to slow down

They knock

We do not open

They walk away

That's when you know - you have lost yourself ~ Malebo Sephodi

Even if I have only 15 minutes, I knock out some toning moves or get in a burst of cardio. ~ Brooke D'Orsay

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down. ~ John Catsimatidis

When the urge to knock on a door strikes, it's your soul's desire for forward movement. So knock! ~ Nicole Leigh West

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Just knock hell out of it with your right hand. ~ Tommy Armour

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am. ~ Patton Oswalt

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today. ~ George Herman

5. Knock, knock. Who's there? To. To who? No, to whom. ~ Anonymous

Basically I try not to knock other comedians. ~ Robert Webb

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch. ~ Graham Norton

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one? ~ Rocky Marciano

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up. ~ Joel Edgerton

Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals. ~ Michael Shnayerson

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes. ~ Carlos Mencia

It is not enough to knock on successes' door; you have to knock hard enough. And if no one answers,
either go through a window, or break down the door. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated. ~ Anna Deavere Smith

I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed. ~ Jarod Kintz

A counterfeit is a knock off. A cat's tail swiping a knickknack placed perilously close to the edge of a shelf is also a knock off. How do you think my heart got broken? ~ Jarod Kintz

Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ~ Randy Elrod

When you knock on the door and the selectors do not open it, then knock harder,' has been his idol Sunil Gavaskar's recurring advice to all youngsters, and Rahul set out to do just that. ~ Devendra Prabhudesai

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out! ~ Ben Affleck

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it. ~ Kendrick Lamar

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~ Emily Dickinson

Violence,' someone had once told Marnie, 'isn't what you think it is. It isn't someone bursting into your home in the middle of the night. It's a soft knock on the door in daylight. A knock that tells you the person outside has brought the worst possible news. News that's going to change your life forever. Violence is waiting for a knock on the door, and realising your whole life is that knock.'

Violence isn't what you think it is. And punishment isn't prison. It's waiting for that soft knock on the door. It's never being free. ~ Sarah Hilary

Never Ever Knock My Dignity. Underneath our life we all are same. We sleep once in a day and wake up
Loud and Clear! ~ Sundeep Lal

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out. ~ Lennox Lewis

Knock knock! Who's ~ LOL Funny Joke Club

& these haters try to knock me but they can't knock me off the hinges. ~ Lil' Wayne

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long ~ Paul Merson

Perez Hilton I challenge you to a 10 round boxing match, you can not be save by the bell and the three knock down rule use to end it if I don't knock your clap invested faggot ass out cold first. ~ Larry Sinclair

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there. ~ Neil Patrick Harris

I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives. ~ Neil Burger

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel. ~ Junot Diaz

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting:
Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
Knock Knock.
Enter Character B. ~ John Guare

Achmed the Dead Terrorist: Knock, knock.
Jeff Dunham: Who's there?
Achmed the Dead Terrorist: Me, I kill you! ~ Jeff Dunham

He lowered his mouth and kissed me. I know I should have kneed him in the groin, but the kiss was delicious. Joe Morelli still knew how to kiss. ~ Janet Evanovich

I don't know when I'll able to knock in the door of her mind. But I believe in my love, enthusiasm and passion. Someday dream may come true. ~ Santonu Kumar Dhar

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly. ~ Neal Schon

Knock the 't' off the 'can't' ~ George Reeves

Humble yourself"
it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door
you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened. ~ Oswald Chambers

She never knew when she trespassed and when she fell in love with Huzaf. Perhaps this is the beauty of love, it doesn't knock. It just creeps in slowly and steadily. ~ Tarif Naaz

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead. ~ Morning Star

Knock, knock. (Desiderius)
Now, ain't this a bitch. Here I am, trying to kiss my girl, and you have to interrupt us. What, were you raised in a barn? By the way, touch the woman, or the Lamborghini, and you're a dead man. (Kyrian) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape. ~ Jeff Lynne

Listen. There is a sound like the knocking of railway trucks in a siding. That is the happy concatenation of one event following another in our lives. Knock, knock, knock. Must, must, must. Must go, must sleep, must wake, must get up - sober, merciful word which we pretend to revile, which we press tight to our hearts, without which we should be undone. How we worship that sound like the knocking together of trucks in a siding! ~ Virginia Woolf

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. ~ Mike Quigley

Cohesion means respectful diversity, which is about much more than the weak-kneed tolerance. ~ Mal Fletcher

Knock on wood is a saying for good luck. I think that started when someone went to someone's door to see if someone was home. "I hope Joe's home, knock on wood!" ~ Mitch Hedberg

Knock, knock!" he called in a high, singsong voice.
For a moment, silence. Then a thud and a crash, as if something heavy had been hurled at the door. "Go away!" snarled the voice from within.
"Ah, no. That's not how the joke goes," called Rob. "I say 'knock, knock', and you're supposed to answer with 'who's there?'"
"Fuck off!"
Nope, that's still wrong." Robbie seemed unperturbed. I, however, was horrified at Ethan's language, though I knew it wasn't him. "Here," continued Rob in an amiable voice, "I'll go through the whole thing, so you'll know how to answer next time." He cleared his throat and pounded at the door again. "Knock, knock!" he bellowed. "Who's there? Puck! Puck who? Puck, who will turn you into a squealing pig and stuff you in the oven if you don't get out of our way!" And with that, he banged the door open. ~ Julie Kagawa

Then I tug the toaster from the wall and swing the appliance around my head like a lasso. I'm not aiming to knock her out. I'm aiming to knock off her fucking head. ~ J.A. Konrath

Sanguine: You mind if I take pictures? Brought my own camera and everythin'
Valkyrie: Knock yourself out
Sanguine: Thanks
Valkyrie: No, really, run head first into a wall and knock yourself out ~ Derek Landy

I'm a door-to-door salesman. I sell doors. If I can't knock on yours, because you don't have a door to knock on, I know you'll be interested in what I'm selling. ~ Jarod Kintz

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within. ~ Simon Newcomb

Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking. ~ Colleen Curran

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. ~ Billy Sunday

No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest. ~ James Bovard

Be always at work scraping the dirt from the well.
To everyone who suffers, perseverance brings good fortune.
The Prophet has said that each prostration of prayer is a knock on heaven's door. When anyone continues to knock, felicity shows its smiling face. ~ Rumi Muhammad Jalal Ud Din Balkhi

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up. ~ Lilly Singh

Don't just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park. ~ A.D. Posey

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism. ~ Mark Gevisser

It was stupid behaviour. And you take a look at the explosion, and it knocks you down and you wake up every morning and you're scared and you're depressed and sad, and you kind of got to let that knock you down and knock you down. ~ David Letterman

Are you allowed to get pregnant yet?"
I laugh. "Nope. Not this weekend. Besides, you have to kiss a girl before you can knock her up."
"Did someone not have sex education when she was homeschooled?" he says. "Because I could totally knock you up without ever kissing you. Want me to show you? ~ Colleen Hoover

The damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't. ~ Winifred Holtby

The most sacred invitation that a person can extend to us is to invite us into their pain. But that means that we have to choose to knock on a door that we often prefer to pretend is not there. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If nobody knocks your door, knock your own door! The most precious support for you is the support you give yourself! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I want to hire someone to stand outside my door and knock three times, with each knock being three years apart. At the end of the nine years I'll reply, "Who is it?" And without delay or reply, the person on the other side of the door is to find a new job. ~ Jarod Kintz

All right. But take my advice, Mr. Hel. Don't let this chance get away. Opportunity doesn't knock twice, you know."
"Penetrating observation. Did you make up the epigram?"
"I'll see you tomorrow."
"Very well. And ask the guard to knock on my cell door twice. I wouldn't want to confuse him with opportunity. ~ Trevanian

His teeth were now rattling on hers: knock-knock, who's there? Bicuspids. Bicuspids who? Bicuspids McAllister. And then his tongue came flicking out, looking for an opening, any opening, even a missing tooth. But she had no missing teeth and all the teeth she did have were clenched together as in a snapped bear trap. ~ Herman Raucher

If they were going to kill you, would they knock? ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

He smacked the heel of his hand against his forhead, as if that could knock the mental picture out of his head. Hell, he though irritably, he didn't want to knock the image just out of his head. He wanted to send it clear across the room and out the window. ~ Julia Quinn

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down. ~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Knock the bullshit off. Love her like crazy, endlessly, stripped of reserve and preservation. Be out of our fucking minds with love, lust and longing. Belonging. Knock on the door of uncertainty and bounce in anticipation of not knowing what resides behind it. Love whatever comes our way because it's part of us. Love every ugly word and beautiful sigh. ~ Pella Grace

When the knock comes, it will knock

a certain reticence. It will leave
your door covered in white-knuckles.

And the windows will no longer breathe, they will die

like paintings. And you will no longer be
worrying the stars into meaning, they will already mean something ~ Olena Kalytiak Davis

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

She is a figure of legend and fairy tale, one to be taken seriously, or she might knock you off your feet with a quick whirl of the staff she carries everywhere. ~ Claire Wong

A brick could be used to knock out the tooth of a giant, and then used as a replacement for that very tooth it knocked out. I'll tell you what, you knock it out, and I'll put the new one back in - and I'll charge a fee for both transactions. ~ Jarod Kintz

Knock! knock!
who's there?
me!
me who?
that's right?
what's right?
meehoo!
that's what I want to know!
what's what you want to know?
me who?
yes, exactly!
exactly what?
yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain!
exactly what on a chain?
yes!
yes what?
no, exactlywatt!
that's what I want to know!
I told you-exactlywatt!
exactly what?
yes!
yes what?
yes it's with me.
what's with you?
exactlywatt-that's what with me.
me who?
yes!
go away!
knock knock... ~ Shel Silverstein

Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)
One time.
When I met ya girl my heart when knock (knock knock)
Now them butterflies in my stomach won't stop (stop stop)
Even love is a struggle and it's all we got.
So we gun keep keep climbing to the mountain top.
'Cause your world, is my world, and my breath is your breath, and my heart is yours ... ~ Justin Bieber