Peephole Quotes

#1. I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Djuna Barnes

#2. Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

George Santayana

#3. Time's only a kind of dream, Kay. If it wasn't, it would have to destroy everything - the whole universe - and then remake it again every tenth of a second. But Time doesn't
destroy anything. It merely moves us on - in this life - from one peephole to the next.

J.B. Priestley

#4. I see a tongue! Some asshole is licking my peephole.

Mark Tufo

#5. Have you seen this guy yet?"
"Nope. My peephole is getting a workout, though."
"Glad to hear at least one hole is getting some action around here.

Alice Clayton

#6. Nobody's home. Don't answer the door during working hours unless you're waiting for a special delivery. Use a peephole if you need to know.

Eileen Roth

#7. The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

Sylvia Plath

#8. Think of me if you will as the Lady of Shalott ... who chooses to watch diligently the bright colours of her Web - to ply an industrious shuttle - to make - something - to close the Shutters and the Peephole too -

A.S. Byatt

#9. All nightmares are a peephole through which we see the unsettling particles of our trampled past, whereas all uplifting dreams are a portal to escape the inexplicable undercurrents that worry our survival.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. Somebody had angrily scrawled DOPE HOUSE with a broad Sharpie above the apartment 6G peephole in the Truman Houses.
"The quality goes in before the name goes on," the CSU tech standing next to Billy said before entering the scene.

Harry Brandt

#11. When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is.

James Comey

#12. But even in the unglamorous warp of the peephole, she looked like a million sunny days to me.

Devon Monk

#13. [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

John Steinbeck

#14. My eyelashes tickled the peephole. from Fogged Up Fairy Tale (Summer 2014)

Denise Baer

#15. Always check the peephole before answering the door. You never know who's on the other side.
Translation: serial killers knock before attacking.

Katie McGarry

#16. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness
how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

Yann Martel

#17. Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Pierre Bourdieu

#18. Whisper 'yes' where 'no' wants to take root.

Suzanne Eller

#19. Connect, connect.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

Dolph Schayes

#21. A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

Sam Worthington