Don Knotts Famous Quotes & Sayings
33 Don Knotts Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Your body expresses yesterday in what it wants today. If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinking: I have died a little. Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it.— Luce Irigaray
When you work with words, words are your work.— Don Knotts
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.— Harland Williams
Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.— Don Knotts
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books ... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.— Lawrence Clark Powell
I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.— Don Knotts
Nip it, Nip it in the bud.— Don Knotts
I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.— Mike Scully
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.— Roma Tearne
Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face.— Tim Conway
So woods are spooky. Quite apart from the thought that they may harbor wild beasts and armed, genetically challenged fellows named Zeke and Festus, there is something innately sinister about them, some ineffable thing that makes you sense an atmosphere of pregnant doom with every step and leaves you profoundly aware that you are out of your element and ought to keep your ears pricked. Though you tell yourself it's preposterous, you can't quite shake the feeling that you are being watched. You order yourself to be serene (it's just a woods for goodness sake), but really you are jumpier than Don Knotts with pistol drawn.— Bill Bryson
Sometimes life was a vicious circle. The things we love can draw us nearer to the things we hate.— Lynn Cahoon
So maybe that's what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.— Wally Lamb
That's right, karate made my whole body a weapon.— Don Knotts
There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.— Justin Guarini
Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.— Don Knotts
We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that.— Don Knotts
The way and manner God executes His plan in our lives differs— T. B. Joshua
I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.— Don Knotts
It isn't easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.— Benjamin R. Smith
My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.— Don Knotts
One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.— Martin Short
No' seems such a flimsy and inadequate little word to express how very little interest I have in hearing you rambling on about that particular topic.— FayJay
A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.— Lauren Hutton
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.— Robin Morgan
My husband doesn't like to fly. He does fly now because he doesn't want our daughter to grow up thinking he is a Don Knotts character. But when we were first married, he didn't fly.— Tina Fey
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.— Don Knotts
In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.— Cesar Romero
You've been striking at her ghost, screaming, 'If you didn't want me to turn out like him, you should have stayed to stop me!'— Sabrina Jeffries
As his throat worked convulsively, she covered his hands with hers. 'But she can't hear you. So all you're doing is trudging a path that isn't your own, growing more weary of it by the day, wanting more from your existence but believing you're cursed to having less. That is no sort of life for anyone ... '
'How can you have such faith in me?' he asked hoarsely. 'How can you believe in me when I've given you no reason?'
'You've given me plenty of reasons, but there's only one that matters. I love you, Oliver. I can't help myself. That is my reason.
I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.— Don Knotts
I'd love to play some kind of fop.— Robert Carlyle
Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. Yes, that's exactly what love is: a tiny, jittery primate with eyes that are permanently peeled open in fear. For those of you who cannot quite picture a pygmy mouse lemur, imagine a miniature Don Knotts or Steve Buscemi wearing a fur coat.— Andrew Davidson
The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?— Alex Blackwell
