Knockers Quotes

• I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Age, Bigs, Grotesque

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• Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Doors, Lows

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• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Art, Kings

  Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

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• I was looking in the mirror today and my waist is still 28 inches. I think it's all because I have a large bosom and a large ass. I have a large ass and it always just looks like I'm bigger than the rest of the girls. I could lose 20 pounds and I'm still going to have these knockers and I'm going to have this ass, and that's just the way it is.

  Serena Williams

  Girl, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Opportunity only gives you knockers once.

  Pamela Anderson

  Opportunity, Giving

  "Q&A: Pamela Anderson" by Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2008.

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• Where do vanished objects go?" "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything," replied Professor McGonagall. "Nicely phrased," replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open.

  J. K. Rowling

  Doors, Eagles, Professor Mcgonagall

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• I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

  Augustus William Hare

  Doors, Heaven, Cobwebs

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.200

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• If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love, Wall, Fall

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002.

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• The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.

  Dolores Huerta

  Doors, People, Firsts

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• Women's football does have its knockers.

  Adrian Durham

  Football, Doe

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• Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Crush, Laughing, Black

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates, 18 x 24 format, artistic documents of the beautiful civil architecture of the 16th to the 19th century: the old hôtels, historic or curious houses, beautiful facades, beautiful doors, beautiful woodwork, door knockers, old fountains This vast artistic and documentary collection is today complete. I can truthfully say that I possess all of Vieux Paris.

  Eugene Atget

  Beautiful, Doors, Years

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• How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

  Charles Dickens

  Heartbreak, Taken, Unrequited Love

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.193

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• On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker.'

  James Parton

  War, Writing, Hands

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• 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.

  Katy Perry

  Hippie, Book, Kids

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