Top 100 Quotes About Doors
#1. He didn't need to find a way into the Gallagher Academy, he told himself. He'd be walking through the front doors soon enough.
Ally Carter
#2. Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she wouldn't be coming back to, walking and talking and cutting lard into flour and slicing fish from their spines and acting as if it were an acceptable thing, this living.
Tom Franklin
#3. Even if I had not been waiting but had shut the doors against you, you should have remembered that no one can possibly shut the doors against love forever.
Oscar Wilde
#4. He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken out of doors, and in winter his private balls were numerous enough for any young lady who was not suffering under the insatiable appetite of fifteen.
Jane Austen
#5. The doors to your dreams are not always visible, and the only way to see them is to create them.
Steven Aitchison
#6. Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#7. I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.
Linda Ronstadt
#8. Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp.
Dale Carnegie
#9. Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.
Plato
#10. And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.
Jack Kerouac
#11. I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.
Jai Rodriguez
#12. At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
Billy Sunday
#13. What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#14. The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
Ingmar Bergman
#15. Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.
Jerry Rice
#16. I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.
K.d. Lang
#17. One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.
Thomas Merton
#18. For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. I was just trying to open the doors ... but walls fell down
Saket Assertive
#20. Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.
Shirley Temple
#21. fresh air down inta the mine. When the doors throughout the mine are shut, the air be trapped an' forced inta the side chutes an' minin' chambers. That's why ya be called trappers. Yur job is ta open the doors when a coal car approaches, then shut 'em agin." "Oh." David knew
Gerald N. Lund
#22. When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
Ho Chi Minh
#23. Suddenly, the double doors of the parlor whooshed open. A large fleshy woman stood before me in full regalia. Her eyes were all made up, earrings and bracelets jangling. The sign in the window said Miss Sadie was a medium. From the look of her, I'd say that was a bit wishful.
Clare Vanderpool
#24. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!
And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!
William Shakespeare
#25. She kept her doors and windows locked, unless she was using them.
Arundhati Roy
#26. The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
Rabindranath Tagore
#27. But when I asked where the extra doors led,Ruby smiled and said sometimes you need more than oneway to reach the outside ...
Nova Ren Suma
#28. The bricked-up fourteenth-century "doors of the dead" are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims - bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.
Frances Mayes
#29. After ... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you
Henry Rollins
#30. There is another door within the door: The key hole is the private door of the key! Sometimes, to open the big doors, we must first pass through the little doors!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. The city that acknowledges and celebrates our common fate, that opens doors to empathy and cooperation, will help us tackle the great challenges of this century.
Charles Montgomery
#32. Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
Mignon McLaughlin
#33. To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
Peter Gabriel
#34. Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
Paulo Coelho
#35. In my career, I've found that only annoying people knock on open doors.
Matthew Norman
#36. For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it's like having Gandalf's staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It's a talisman of such power.
Alex Gibney
#38. They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#39. You open doors when you open books ... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.
Wilferd Peterson
#40. Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love.
Carl Sandburg
#41. Your kindness cannot be said.
You open doors in the sky.
You ease the heart and make
God's qualities visible.
Rumi
#42. Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
Alan Bradley
#43. When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.
Raul Ruiz
#44. Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.
Joyce Meyer
#45. The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.
Augusten Burroughs
#46. HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand book opens doors to the past where we have an opportunity to explore the deeper meanings, myths and symbols of our art.
Jeff McBride
#47. I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.
Avi Lewis
#48. Gina. I wish to goodness that detestable thing had never set his foot inside our doors!
Henrik Ibsen
#49. Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.
Jennifer Weiner
#50. The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt.
The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart.
The hand is the hand of God.
The nail is the nail of God.
And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nail, the doors of heaven opened for you.
Max Lucado
#51. Both the dream state and Soul Travel are doors to the same spiritual worlds.
Harold Klemp
#52. Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But yeah, when the other doors open, why not walk through?
Rita Ora
#54. Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.
Georges St-Pierre
#55. Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
Leonard Ravenhill
#56. I do not wear a welcome mat on my chest just so people can walk all over it fumbling with the keys to the locks they keep building for the doors I keep opening hoping someone will see the rainforest growing in my living room.
Andrea Gibson
#57. When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen
different doors and to those who are still in the hall.
C.S. Lewis
#58. Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity.
Anthony Liccione
#59. It's nice to have more than one little one because then you'll have - while one is pushing you in a wheelchair, the other one can open the doors for you.
Clyde Edgerton
#60. I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.
Marla Sokoloff
#62. I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
Flea
#64. Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
Yochai Benkler
#65. The casino seemed like a good idea at first - right off the highway, filled with drunks and elderly, neither of whom are known for eyesight. But I am feeling crowded and fidgety, aware of the cameras in every corner, the doors that could snap shut.
Gillian Flynn
#66. No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
Harvey MacKay
#67. Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me.
Sylvia Day
#68. Put something on," Tyler ordered. "And lock the doors. I'll check it out."
"No, you won't." She was already marching to her closet. "We'll check it out. Nobody pushes me
around," she said as she dragged on a sweater and pants. "Nobody.
Nora Roberts
#69. Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.
Jane Yolen
#70. And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world.
Trudy Wallis
#71. People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
Tate Taylor
#72. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks.
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. Mistakes are the doors of discovery", by James Joyce. A similar one: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" by Ernest Hemingway. Both remind me that our biggest mistakes are the experiences we learn the most from. Hope to improve gives everyone the desire to live the next day, doesn't it?
Robert Pattinson
#74. Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.
James Gleick
#75. Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.
Michael Hogan
#76. The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff ...
James Ellroy
#77. If you did leave,' he said. 'If you did simply walk out the doors and stroll down the mountain, leaving behind no word of where you were going or why, I would come looking for you. I would never stop looking for you. I would find you, too.
Sharon Shinn
#78. You're young. Why are you doing this? That's not a person anymore, that's a nuclear reactor. You'll just burn together." I was like a dog, running after them. I'd stand for hours at their doors, begging and pleading. And then they'd say: "All right! The hell with you! You're not normal!
Svetlana Alexievich
#79. A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.
Olivier Messiaen
#80. Those teetering on madness hold keys to doors you know nothing about. You must ask yourself if these rooms are worth visiting - if in the end life would have made more sense having been in them.
Christopher Hawke
#81. I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
John Leguizamo
#82. Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.
Margaret Bourke-White
#83. I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.
Jennifer Lawrence
#84. I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
Bess Truman
#85. [Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."
The kid lifted his eyebrows.
"My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
Jim Butcher
#86. 'Instructions Not Included' is proving that there is a huge Latin market that needs a special project. They love seeing their own people; they want to see themselves onscreen. In my case, I know them pretty well. I know what they laugh at. I think it's going to open a lot of doors, this movie.
Eugenio Derbez
#87. Mr. Grey trailed behind Mr. Saffron, frowning massively and watching the mysterious doors. There were hundreds
maybe thousands
of them along the endless corridor. None had names or markings of any kind. In the lead, Mr. Pink could be heard counting softly under his breath.
G. Norman Lippert
#88. Between the world we see
and the things we fear,
there are doors.
When they are opened,
nightmares become reality.
A Haunting
#89. Memories feign through scarcely perceived doors of my being.
Haruki Murakami
#90. In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
Anthony Michael Hall
#91. Everything about Wesley Ayers is messy. My three worlds are kept apart by walls and doors and locks, and yet here he is, tracking the Archive into my life like mud. I know what Da would say, I know, I know, I know. But the strange new overlap is scary and messy and welcome. I can be careful.
Victoria Schwab
#92. Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.
Khalil Gibran
#93. His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. "I thought I heard something."
"Yeah, well, guess what? I'm a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!
Becca Fitzpatrick
#94. 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
#95. Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#96. Charles L. Allen once said, "When you say a person or situation is hopeless, you are slamming a door in the face of God." Ouch. It is easy to focus on the doors being slammed (rejection, illness, fatigue, failures) and not see things from God's perspective. He never leaves us.
Celeste Palermo
#98. Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.
V. Bozeman
#99. I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.
Joyce Meyer
#100. She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.
Amy Zhang
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