Quotes About Doorknobs

#1. This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.

Suzanne Finnamore

#2. I couldn't decide if he was four or nine or twelve. I had no idea of the specifics of children. He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn doorknobs.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. Eternal condemnation is the key to selling doorknobs.

Stephan Pastis

#4. He knew now what this thing was - hysteria, a snake whose scales are tiny mirrors in which the dead world takes on a semblance of life. And how dead the world is ... a world of doorknobs. He wondered if hysteria were really too steep a price to pay for bringing it to life.

Nathanael West

#5. The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was.

Carl Sandburg

#6. I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.

Adele Griffin

#7. Even if no learning to speak of was involved in locking my mental term onto doorknobs, it is odd to say that therefore my possession of a doorknob concept is innate, just as it is odd to say that my head-injury-caused singing is innate.

David Papineau

#8. It really is a helluva fiver-upper," Henry said, because someone had to say it. "I feel like they should possibly renovate this basement if they want to get a good sale price. Hardwood floors, update the doorknobs, maybe put the wall back.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. You are so lucky
that I cannot remember
how to use doorknobs.

Ryan Mecum

#10. I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Mark Rosen

#11. The room was dark and velvety from the royal blue wallpaper with its gold pattern, but even here the echo of the flaming day shimmered brassily on the picture frames, on doorknobs and glided borders, although it came through the filter of the dense greenery of the garden.

Bruno Schulz

#12. A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

Jane Hirshfield

#13. Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Richard Cecil

#14. When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

Donald Miller

#15. Whatever situation you are in, you should find an opportunity to renew your strength in the Lord, so that your problems don't affect your joy, your peace and rest.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. Hope is the last thing that dies.
Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

Vera Nazarian

#17. I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Edward Irving

#18. Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

John Philip Sousa

#19. A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

B.F. Skinner

#20. Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?

A.S. King

#21. Ever had one of those days you couldn't hit the ground with your hat?

Waylon Jennings

#22. He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

Frederick Drimmer

#23. Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.

Dalai Lama

#24. Yes, it always pays when the wife believes and admits that her husband is the wisest man in the world and that whatever he does is right.

Hans Christian Andersen

#25. More likely drinking Coca-Cola... than water will be a symmetry...

Deyth Banger

#26. It wasn't easy to cram your whole life into thirty kilos of luggage.

Michel Houellebecq

#27. That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

Akon