Doorbell Quotes

#1. It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

Rachel Johnson

#2. The best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
putting the phone
in the
refrigerator
and going to bed
for 3 or 4
days. and the next best
part
was
nobody ever
missed
me.

Charles Bukowski

#3. We walk around carrying Closed signs around our necks while we press Open to our chests and wonder why the doorbell never rings.

Shinji Moon

#4. What we weave in solitude is unraveled by the doorbell's ringing.

Mel Nicolai

#5. He pushed me back up against the door, slamming me against the doorbell. I heard it ring out.
"Coming!" I heard Holly say as she clicked across the floor to the front door.
"Not quite, but she's close." He chuckled, removing his hand and leaving me breathless and rosy cheeked.

Alice Clayton

#6. Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

John Lydon

#7. There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell.

Julia Quinn

#8. Oh, for goodness' sake," yawned Isabelle, "Is he really waking us up at this ungodly hour just to prove his love to you or something? Couldn't he have called? mundane men are such twits."
(Thinking its Simon when the "doorbell" of institute rings)
-Isabelle to Clary, pg.188-

Cassandra Clare

#9. Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.

Thomas Haden Church

#10. Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

Maureen Lipman

#11. There was a stiff bell-pull instead of a doorbell that Teddy had to yank hard for any result. They could hear a faint ringing somewhere beyond the fortress-like front door. No footsteps of anyone rushing to open it. It was a house in mourning, Teddy supposed.

Kate Atkinson

#12. Calm down. Ghosts don't ring the doorbell.

Kelly Moran

#13. The doorbell rings, and my heart flips.

Kasie West

#14. The doorbell rang before she could get to hair and makeup. She answered to Kate and Jasmine arguing about the best way to get to her house, even though it was already too late since they were, in fact, at her house. "Hey, Kris." Jasmine

K.F. Breene

#15. That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.

Victoria Moran

#16. To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not

Kate DiCamillo

#17. That mama-bear, elegant-and-modest-on-the-outside, hot-as-allfuck-on-the-inside thing was ringing his doorbell. And God help him, he knew it was beyond inappropriate to be making up fuck fantasies about this woman right then but he couldn't help it.

Lauren Dane

#18. God's Doorbell [10w]
Earth is God's doorbell,
unfortunately, half the time
nobody's home.

Beryl Dov

#19. When the doorbell rings at three o'clock in the morning its never good news

Anthony Horowitz

#20. When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

Sophie Kinsella

#21. Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once.

Malorie Blackman

#22. The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

Honore De Balzac

#23. I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Ray Charles

#24. As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

Rupert Everett

#25. As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

Adam Michnik

#26. There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

Wallace Stegner

#27. Enjoy life while you can. Nothing's gonna happen for maybe five, ten, fifteen, twenty years. But lemme give you a piece of advice: Whenever the doorbell rings, have somebody else answer the door.

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. A bead of cold sweat dangled on my fingertip before dripping onto the doorbell. What if I got electrocuted from my wet fingers? I would die literally inches from my first high school party. And everyone would be like, oh, poor thing was so nervous, what a tragedy. Death by sweat.

Lindsey Leavitt

#29. When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

Anthony Horowitz

#30. The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

Douglas Adams

#31. I was halfway up the stairs when the doorbell rang. "Dash it all!" I said. There was nothing I hated more than being interrupted when I was about to do something gratifying with chemicals.

Alan Bradley

#32. Anyone who says forty is the new twenty can suck it - if they can bend over enough to reach it. It's more like the new ninety, because you're now seriously pondering when Death will ring your doorbell in the form of those everyday pains and aches that now torture your once hot, tight body.

Christine Zolendz

#33. You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.

Tina Turner

#34. Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that.
- T-shirt

Darynda Jones

#35. As I pressed the doorbell button it popped off the wall and hung by two colored cords. Obviously it didn't work, so I knocked.

Elle Klass

#36. Can I ask who you are, sir?"
"Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police just now. "Should be just about within your capabilities.

Robert Galbraith

#37. Yo momma so poor that when I rang her doorbell, she said "ding-dong.

Various

#38. If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

Joan Bauer

#39. Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

Winston Churchill

#40. Before the doorbell rings I hear the footsteps, a broken heartbeat on the paving stones, and I know that Claude is here.

Claire King

#41. My social status leaps after decades of disqualification on grounds of radiation. The doorbell rings and there stands Vanessa Redgrave. 'Marcie,' she begins, and then goes on about social injustice in Namibia, and how we must all build a raft by late afternoon - preferably out of coconut matting.

Morrissey

#42. (The doorbell rang) ... I knew that Feely and Daffy would never condescend to respond to a bell ("So utterly Pavlovian," Feely said) ...
Keep warm feet and a cool head, and you'll never find yourself sneezing in bed.

Alan Bradley

#43. [On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?

Dorothy Parker

#44. The doorbell rings and I sink into a heap on the carpet. With any luck, whoever is down there will just go away.
But I'm just starting to think nothing goes away, no matter how deep you try to bury it.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

#45. I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

Graham Greene

#46. If a boy pulls up and honks for her, go out and have words with him. Explain that your daughter answers to a doorbell.

James C. Dobson

#47. If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

Olin Miller

#48. It was always a considerable annoyance to any Disc citizen with pretensions to culture that they were ruled by gods whose idea of an uplifting artistic experience was a musical doorbell..

Terry Pratchett

#49. Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his.

Mandy Hale

#50. Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

W. Bruce Cameron

#51. Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.

Redman

#52. I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

Mira Bartok

#53. I never liked to hear the doorbell ring. None of the people I liked ever turned up that way.

Jenny Offill

#54. Look, if I don't let Ewan in, he's going to call the police."
"Answer it," he rasped with a harsh resolve. "But when he's gone, you're coming with me, Emma. Count on it."
"Go to hell," she snapped in a breathy whisper as the doorbell rang again.

Monica Burns

#55. Quoth the doorbell with its silence, no comment at this time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#56. I'll leave the door unlocked. Be sure to ring the doorbell before you climb in through the window.

Jarod Kintz

#57. I was so sure I'd heard the doorbell and simultaneously certain that I hadn't. How could a smart and competent 23-year-old not be able to distinguish the edges of dreams from the tips of reality? How had the picture gone so horribly blurry that I'd looked to a dog to regain my bearings?

Julie Flygare

#58. No, you don't need to help me. But if you don't, there's nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can't kill me. Think of it as me leaning against your Heavenly doorbell ... forever.

Cassandra Clare

#59. My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

Rita Rudner