Close The Door Behind You Quotes

#1. Leaving the day to itself, you close the door behind you and pour a bowl of cereal, then another, and would a third if you didn't interrupt yourself with the statement - you aren't hungry.
Appetite won't attach you to anything no matter how depleted you feel.

Claudia Rankine

#2. Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have ... to impress people that they don't like!"
Nothing to do w/ "books"
Just like the quote!

Will Smith

#3. I think it can be a good idea to know what you do well and use that to open the door for yourself. Once you open the door, close it behind you, and start to make changes.

Kelli O'Hara

#4. Why do you have your gun out?" she whispers, following right behind me. "Always be prepared," I tell her as we step inside. I close the door behind me, locking the deadbolt and the top lock. "Boy Scout motto, isn't it?" "Yes, but when they go camping, they bring extra matches. Not firearms.

Karina Halle

#5. For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.
(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

John Calvin

#6. I leave her in the bed. I put on my clothes, pick up my keys, and close the door behind me. I turn back. I keep turning back to see her. Even when there are walls between us. I keep turning back. I keep turning in her direction.

David Levithan

#7. He quickly left the room, and when he shut the door behind him he leaned his back against it, tilted his head back, and put his palms to his eyes before bowing his head. " ... That was too close," he murmured under his breath..

Madison Thorne Grey

#8. Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.

Susan Kohner

#9. My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

Charles M. Blow

#10. Belief In Self
If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing.

Kamil Ali

#11. He knew that he was vulnerable to her in this state, that her expertise, like Laurent's, was in finding weakness and pressing down. He looked over at Laurent and said, flatly, 'Deal with it.' Laurent

C.S. Pacat

#12. Well, I just get as close as I can to a happy ending, then I shut the door behind me and move on.

James Goss

#13. All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.

Liz Kessler

#14. The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.

Harvey Diamond

#15. I know I should look away, I should walk out and quietly close the door behind me, but I can't. Has there ever been a more magnificent sight than a man pleasuring himself?

Carmen Jenner

#16. Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

Peter Hoeg

#17. I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that seemed strange and distant. I started to walk aimlessly, oblivious to the cold and the rain-filled wind that was starting to lash the town with the breath of a curse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

Peter Hoeg

#19. As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Dani Shapiro

#20. The only way to survive your past was to find a way to close it off behind you, to shut one door before passing into another, brighter room.

Alexandra Bracken

#21. I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess with their ability to pull themselves together." "Is that so? Now you're the expert on ghost prevention?" "I guess so. It worked.

Rhonda Hughes

#22. You don't have to whisper. No-one can here you.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#23. A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man ...

Henri Matisse

#24. I know this messenger, guard," said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road - assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. "He may come close; there's nothing wrong.

Charles Dickens

#25. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

#26. She had touched life, played with it a little, but it is a slippery bugger, and finally we must close the door, and leave it behind. A

Rachel Joyce

#27. Battles are won and lost through prayer.

Karen Kingsbury

#28. When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out of it, as if I had removed my headphones and heard the city again, it is easy to close the door behind me.

Olivia Sudjic

#29. Gavin turned to leave, and I was right behind him so I could close the door when he walked out, but he stopped short and turned back around. I bumped straight into him, our faces close, too close, at this point.
"I've missed you," Gavin whispered.

Brynn Myers

#30. Let's chow, and then we'll get our books," Tony said. Just as the door was about to close behind us, he added, "You act like you've never had food before.

Rebecca Maizel

#31. Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").

Horace

#32. She ran from the shame, slammed his door behind her and ran, away from the pain and the moment when he had been so close to her mouth he could have kissed her, the thought that made her feel like her heart would burst.

Laure Eve

#33. opened the door with a smile. The man bowed slightly, then stepped quickly over the threshold and grabbed the door from her hand to close it firmly behind him. "Here," she said angrily. "What's - " The man pushed her disdainfully aside with the walking stick

Felicia Andrews

#34. And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

Ihara Saikaku

#35. I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.

Greg Maddux

#36. It's enough to make me laugh. I close the door behind me and sit down again, considering this, and truly, I find it so funny that I laugh until I cry.
And when the tears come I think aah ...
So this is what it means to be alone.

John Boyne

#37. Oh yes. His voice has music.

Ally Condie