Top 100 Opening Door Quotes
#1. I would pass over the whole of that evening, in fact. I would spare you the burden of any of it if one piece were not necessary to the story. It is vital. It is the hinge upon which the story pivots like an opening door. In some ways, this is where the story begins. So let's have done with it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#2. I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you."
"I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.
Kelley Armstrong
#3. That's too bad," Mr. Hall said, opening Door 1. "You've won a goat."
"But you didn't open another door yet or give me a chance to switch."
"Where does it say I have to let you switch every time? I'm the master of the show.
Monty Hall
#4. My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
Gaspar Noe
#6. the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. The
Stephen King
#7. I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think? Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
Hanif Kureishi
#8. All great discoveries are made by opening up the changing room door
Josh Stern
#9. (1)BEING A POET
is like opening a car door
& exposing yourself.
(2)BEING A GOOD POET
is like opening the door
& exposing the passenger
as well.
Chocolate Waters
#10. I can tell you have a good heart ... " I sighed, opening the door to the outside." ... because the minute I met you, I wanted to fight for it.
Rachel Van Dyken
#11. Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
Margaret Atwood
#12. The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
Adolf Hitler
#13. To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#14. Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to try new things.
Peggy Rathmann
#15. I'm sorry, Imi." His apology whispered in my ears as I left the room. But it was the words that followed that burrowed deep.
"I'm sorry I couldn't be who you deserved."
I stopped just before opening the door.
"I'm sorry I believed that you already were," I responded softly.
A Meredith Walters
#16. Her father was her door to the world; he was the singular opening through which she saw, heard, and felt. Without him she didn't know what she saw, or what she heard, and what she felt; all she felt, was him gone.
Anthony Marra
#17. She waited the eternal instant that women wait when a horror jumps out at them. It is an instant that men do not use for waiting, an instant that opens a door to life or death. Women look through the opening because something might be alive in there.
Kathleen Winter
#18. Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
Ethel M. Dell
#19. It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off.
Cassandra Clare
#20. To go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is so ineffably pure that it makes me gasp, and I feel a black and sinful object in the midst of all the spotlessness.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#21. The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
Carl Jung
#22. Somehow our civilization believes opening the fridge door is the solution to everything
Vidur Moudgil
#23. I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.
David Rakoff
#24. When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is different every time.
Xinran
#25. Good game, now if you don't mind opening the door, I'd like to unfold myself
Rae Mariz
#26. Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.
Brian Andreas
#27. I'm a believer that when one door closes another one opens. But why does the one opening always hit me full-speed-knob-first into my nuts?
Bob Saget
#28. Does this public display of affection with my daughter on my front porch mean I'm stuck with you now?" he asks, opening the screen door for Harper.
I'm not sure if I should laugh, so I hold back. "I'm afraid so.
Trish Doller
#29. I didn't yet perceive the way everything that happens is connected-didn't realize that opening a door that led to outside exploration would inevitably open a door to the unexplored places inside myself.
Cameron Dokey
#30. He paused for a moment before opening a door on the second story.
Charles Dickens
#31. Here was the worst curse: he managed to force the dream from his conscious mind often enough that when it returned to him (opening the pantry door, say, recalling the sweep of floodwater), the experience of it became fresh and bleeding once more.
Anthony Doerr
#32. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.
Carl Sandburg
#33. I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
Odilon Redon
#34. Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
Arnaud Desjardins
#35. When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.
Dylan Moran
#36. did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door
Jerry Spinelli
#37. At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland...
Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey
#38. What Sam said?" He nodded. "He said to keep my hands off someone else's wife. But you're not going to be someone else's wife." "Slow down, speed racer." "You know what I mean," he said, opening my door.
Jamie McGuire
#39. The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
Peter S. Beagle
#40. I watch the back of Abel's head for a moment before opening the door. Coming to him was the right thing to do, it always was. Abel is my other half. If ever there was someone to release me of a weak heart, it would be him.
Celia Mcmahon
#41. I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.
Patrick Ness
#42. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.
Annie Proulx
#43. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
Michel De Montaigne
#44. There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years ... anytime I hear that door opening, I still think I'm going to hear her.
Liam Neeson
#45. I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather."
"Yeah."
"And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up.
Rachel Caine
#46. Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.
Liu Cixin
#47. I am capable of opening my own door," I said, getting out of the car. "Why do today's women think it's important to open a door themselves?" he said sharply.
Deborah Harkness
#48. But I forgot to tell him," I said quietly, opening the door, "that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key."
"Oh?"
I shrugged. "He was the one who let me out.".
Sarah J. Maas
#49. Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.
Tibor Fischer
#50. No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.
Thomas Dreier
#51. Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.
Rod Steiger
#52. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
Matthieu Ricard
#53. You don't have to walk me back. I live down the hall." She smiled up at him.
"My mama didn't raise me like that," Paul said, opening the door.
"Actually, your mama has some sense, and would say, 'She lives twenty feet away,' but suit yourself," Mrs. Olivier said.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#54. The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
Steven Price
#55. Before Simon could answer, he heard the sound of the front door opening. He looked daggers at Jace. "That's my roommate. Kyle. Be nice." Jace smiled charmingly. "I'm always nice.
Cassandra Clare
#56. The door to Jakes' office slammed against the wall, and Vivi barreled through the opening. "Turn this ship around right now.
Cheryl Sterling
#57. Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.
Brian Tracy
#58. Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin. She
Susan Wiggs
#59. Your mind is the key to opening the door of opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#60. You should do the dramatic door-opening thing," I told Curran. "Would you like to see me do the dramatic door-opening thing?" "Yes, I would. Very much." A quick smile bent his lips. We
Ilona Andrews
#61. The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
Andy Rooney
#62. In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain
it's how to control everything. This is the key.
Marina Abramovic
#63. I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.
Richard Bach
#64. Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. - Unknown
Kenneth W. Osbeck
#65. Once opening the door was a promise of happiness, now my surroundings seem to have appointed me the keeper of sadness.
Nancy B. Brewer
#66. Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.
Laozi
#67. Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Billy Sunday
#68. The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
Rita Dove
#69. She craned her neck, glared at me through the small opening, and took a step back.
And then she kicked my door in.
Was it any wonder I was falling for her?"
"Chapter 24
Alyxandra Harvey
#70. God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#71. She looked up from the tag. "Uh, news flash. Your friends hate me."
"They don't know you," he said. Opening his door, he climbed out. He turned back, though, and leaned in on the door frame, peering at her. "Besides," he said, "you'd be with me.
Kelly Creagh
#72. Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.
Stephen King
#73. I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door.
Mary Balogh
#74. Some good," Randall said, opening the door for Holly. "We'll meet you in an hour. Call and order something from room service. You look
Anne Stuart
#75. In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of ... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.
Emma Watson
#77. We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
Tom Peters
#78. I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
Nan Kempner
#79. Yes' is a very powerful word. It's like opening a door. It's like fanning a flame. It's the most powerful word in the world.
Kenneth Oppel
#80. All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#81. It's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.
Margaret Atwood
#82. I always make sure there's an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.
Tablo
#83. The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated caution, toward the door; these movements it performed in the manner of a prodigiously shitfaced man intent on demonstrating that he had only had a couple of sherries with dinner.
Mark O'Connell
#84. I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.
Lauren Conrad
#85. I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.
Grace Jones
#86. Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.
Chris Ofili
#88. When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.
Behdad Sami
#89. Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.
Deepak Chopra
#90. If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.
Paul Feig
#91. The daydreamy hypothetical that floats through the mind, opening the door to the imagination where everything and anything is possible.
- Story, Robert McKee
Audrey Godwin
#92. Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a church, its exotic setting and strange names, the rolling orchestration of its prose.
William H Gass
#93. Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it's God bringing people in.
Colin S. Smith
#94. I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.
David Mitchell
#95. If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!
Prince
#96. If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
Hayley Mills
#97. As soon as a person sits down in front of a medium asking for a reading they are opening a door and extending an invitation to Satan to come in. Satan is a master of disguise.
K.J. Masters
#98. (Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.
Charles Stanley
#99. With another curse, I'm out of the truck, slamming the door to piss Pigpen off. He follows as I go up the stairs, then brushes past me when I pause. He grins at me over his shoulder before opening the screen door.
Katie McGarry
#100. Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.
Carla Buckley
