Famous quotes containing the word knocking:
“The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“But I died yesterday,
Daddy, I died,
swallowing the Nazi-Jap-animal
and it wont get out
it keeps knocking at my eyes,
my big orphan eyes....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
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