Quotes of: Opportunity-knocks Keyword

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

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

Enrico Colantoni

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

Bill Hader

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Boris Pasternak

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Hugh Downs

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

Joaquin Phoenix

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

Jimmy Swaggart

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

I am going to knock the slut out of you. And that should take some doing, you uppity English tramp!

Jeaniene Frost

All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.

Caroline Leavitt

Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.

Nicolas Cage

I had kissed a girl in the second season of 'Community,' but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling's teeth out.

Gillian Jacobs

Jay: I don't care if she's my cousin or not, I'm gonna knock those boots again tonight.

Clerks

Letty: Would you believe I knocked him out with my charm? Kara: You're not that charming, bitch.

Furious Seven

Dot: You soak his thumb in iodine and you might get by without the orthodonture, but it won't knock a thing off the university.

Raising Arizona

Door Knocker: Aren't you even going to knock? You're the most pathetic little girl I've ever seen.

Spirited Away

Rorschach: [after knocking out and then electrocuting a thug against a toilet] Hm. Never disposed of sewage with a toilet before. Obvious, really.

Watchmen

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

Adam McKay

Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.

Mariella Frostrup