knocks quotes

  •    There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.You come to nature withyour theories, and nature knocksthemall flat.

    - Pierre Auguste Renoir
    c.1915  Quoted in AmbroiseVollard Renoir, an Intimate Record (1930).

  • What really knocksme out isa book that, whenyou'reall done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

    -J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
    The Catcher in the Rye, ch.3.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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