Quotes About Shutting Doors

#1. It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho

#2. The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Marjorie Holmes

#3. I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Lara Pulver

#4. But this ... this kid wasn't dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba)
Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

Norman Vincent Peale

#6. We thrust our babies into the air again and again, showing them what it felt like to be a mother, to be terrifyingly in love without the option of getting off.

Miranda July

#7. By seven o'clock even the long corridor was as dim as the alley outside. No one thought of shutting the windows - I doubt whether they will shut...and the fog rolled over the sill in banks and round the open glass doors, till even the white cap of a Sister could hardly be seen as she passed.

Enid Bagnold

#8. All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Graham Norton

#9. I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

Emmy Rossum

#10. If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

Jack Kirby

#11. The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#12. I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.

Nikki Sixx

#13. At midnight, Cinderella ran away from the ball, leaving behind glass slipper. The doors swing slowly close behind, shutting out the sound of the party, and I realize I've lost something far more important than a shoe. I've lost my best friend.

Donna Cooner

#14. For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

Darell Hammond

#16. I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.

Elden Henson

#17. It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

Stendhal

#18. I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Stephen King

#19. The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

Claire Tomalin