I have to work really hard eight shows a week to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play and it's a - knock wood - hit the checks come in for many years.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

As a result of my philosophy I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

The truth knocks on the door and you say go away I'm looking for the truth and it goes away. Puzzling.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say 'Go away I'm looking for the truth ' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Truth is a demure lady much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there but people must want her and seek her out.

As we celebrate Recovery Month it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else but if you really want to knock it out of the park you have to do something different and take chances.

I believe success is preparation because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

People ask me all the time 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are the less scripted dramas out there but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars ' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

So I say to you Ask and it will be given to you search and you will find knock and the door will be opened for you.

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals to look out for hypocrisy advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Fortune knocks but once but misfortune has much more patience.

How strange that nature does not knock and yet does not intrude!

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down I like to root for him to succeed.

Opportunity does not knock it presents itself when you beat down the door.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls and so people were always knocking on my door and trying to get me out so we could play.

I'm knocking our pitiful pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people knock yourselves out!

When life knocks you down try to land on your back. Because if you can look up you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s I can look 1970s hippie-chic or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.