French Doors Quotes

#1. Alex's eyes went wide. You can't bury them in my backyard. Damn it, Ian, we're putting in a swimming pool in the next couple of weeks. How am I supposed to explain that? First my French doors, then the hardwoods, and now you want to turn my backyard into a fucking body dump. It's not happening, Ian.

Lexi Blake

#2. I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was ideas.

John Boyne

#3. The train stops at the signal as usual. I can see Jess standing on the patio in front of the French doors. She's wearing a bright print dress, her feet are bare.

Paula Hawkins

#4. Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

Lynn Viehl

#5. I have a nice little house in LA. Well, the bedroom is nice. I have French doors in the bedroom. They don't open unless I lick them.

Judy Gold

#6. This is it." Morgan gestured to the French doors like she was modeling a prize on a game show. "Here we have door number one. Will it lead our contestant to the dog-faced man of her dreams? Or will she find an axe-wielding psychopath? Stay tuned.

Cole Gibsen

#7. Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the glances, the conversations that can't be heard. How do you get to be so full? And so full of only meaningful things?

Zadie Smith

#8. All that St. Kilda's gloss, that walk through old oak doors like you belong, effortless: I wanted that. I wanted to lick it off my banged-up fists along with my enemy's blood. This

Tana French

#9. I have opened all the doors in my head.
I have opened all the pores in my body.
But only the tide rolls in.

Marilyn French

#10. I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

Michael Ondaatje

#11. During our first month in the flat, however, Mr Puri was on his best behaviour. Apart from twice proposing marriage to my wife, he behaved with perfect decorum.

William Dalrymple

#12. If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity

Gordon B. Hinckley

#13. Like a berserk raptor thrown into a nest of hibernating kittens ...

Iain M. Banks

#14. If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.

Kenyon Martin

#15. So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.

Geoffrey Cowan

#16. People are different in different places,' he thought hazily. 'And if they're all right in one place, it's best to leave them there.

Elizabeth Taylor

#17. Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know.

John Keats

#18. Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

John Keats

#19. Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#20. In a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

Marilyn French

#21. Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
Do Justice
Learn from the World Community
Nurture People
Cherish the Natural Order
Non-Conform Freely.

Doris Janzen Longacre