Quotes About Shutting The Door

#1. 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

#2. I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this
I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. Did I really want to call myself Swiss if it meant shutting the door on less "perfect" residents?

Clare O'Dea

#4. But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

Anne Frank

#5. Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.

Susan Kay

#6. 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

#7. Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

Jessica Savitch

#8. Ah, here's my SUV." He made sure her dress was tucked into the car before shutting her door. "I'll wait for you just down the road and then you can follow me home. Oh, and Jack? This is a one night only invitation. If you're not okay with that keep on driving.

Mary J. Williams

#9. He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent and evil magic; the magic of the think-machine gods, whose cult has one dogma - we cannot make a mistake.

Christopher Isherwood

#10. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Abraham Lincoln

#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. If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

Elmer Rice

#13. All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

Robert Henri

#14. I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

Lucy Davis

#15. Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.

Virginia Woolf

#16. Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.

Meher Baba

#17. Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6)

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. A wicked grin crinkled one corner of his mouth as he secured another sticky note on the door before shutting it in my face.
I blinked, then read the note.
Use the key.

Darynda Jones

#19. I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

Dana Spiotta

#20. it, I'm growing on you, aren't I?" she asked, a smile on her face as she placed a foot on the bottom step to the empty carriage. "Like a wart, darling," he replied with his accustomed grin, before shutting the carriage door after her.

A.W. Exley

#21. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Tennessee Williams