Doorstop Quotes

#1. I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.

Colum McCann

#2. I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

Jack Nance

#3. The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book
it makes a very poor doorstop.

Alfred Hitchcock

#4. Do that again and, bracelet or no bracelet, I'll tear your head off and use it for a doorstop. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. The conductor was eating a young ladies' cinema nibble with a rigid, humourless expression, as though it was the doorstop or hunk of sausage that would have accorded with his personality.

Joseph Roth

#6. Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.

Hugh Hardy

#7. A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

Colum McCann

#8. As for Demonologies: A History, I was beginning to think it would have been better employed as a doorstop.

Rachel Hawkins

#9. A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

Bernard Berenson

#10. The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

Francis Bacon

#11. If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.

Martin Freeman

#13. To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

John Of The Cross

#14. We never fully understand what we have been told until we experience it. Learning not embedded in experience is forever crippled. Unfortunately, our present society is schooled, not educated.

Dee Hock

#15. Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only - annihilation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Deepak Chopra

#17. It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

#18. If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

Chad Hurley