Somebodys Knocking Quotes & Sayings

Life was too often a series of interruptions. Phone calls, family crises, other people always interrupting, — Tess Gerritsen

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice. — Robert Benchley

We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands. — Edward Jay Epstein

Pretty girls don't need a lot of education to marry into a rich and powerful family, but girls with an average or ugly appearance will find it difficult. These kinds of girls hope to further their education in order to increase their competitiveness. The tragedy is, they don't realize that as women age, they are worth less and less, so by the time they get their M.A. or Ph.D., they are already old, like yellowed pearls."

- Xinhua News Agency, 2011. Reposted on All-China Women's Federation website days after International Women's Day. — Leta Hong Fincher

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie. — Veronica Lake

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. — David O. McKay

I wanted things to be highly coloured, simple in outline, without ambiguity, which is what most children want when it comes to the stories of their parents. They want a postcard. — Margaret Atwood

I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of this reader, the operation of reading turned into a natural process, the current that brings the sentences to graze the filter of her attention, to stop for a moment before being absorbed by the circuits of her mind and disappearing, transformed into her interior ghosts, into what in her is most personal and incommunicable. At — Italo Calvino

We'll just be the kinds of girls who have boyfriends in college. — Gayle Forman

One of the greatest benefits of writing a truly awful, lousy, no good first draft is that it can only get better from there. — Martha Alderson

The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew not how. — Thomas Hardy

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch. — Rosie O'Donnell

I'm proud that my clients are working to support themselves and those who depend on them. — Gloria Allred

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder. — Enid Bagnold