Swinging Door Quotes

#1. The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

Meister Eckhart

#2. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.

Annie Proulx

#3. When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

Shunryu Suzuki

#4. What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Shunryu Suzuki

#5. I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner. He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

Jennifer Armintrout

#6. To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

Howard Thurman

#7. The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.

Mary Robinson

#8. I think I hear someone on the stairs. The old wooden boards creak like crazy, and I hear the tell-tale sound of someone walking up the stairs. My heart is practically in my throat now. Then I hear the familiar sound of my old mahogany bedroom door swinging slowly open on squeaky hinges.

April Wilson

#9. I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.

Jim Butcher

#10. What did I do?"
"What did you do? Well, for starters, you used your face to stop a cafeteria door from swinging open.

Anna Banks

#11. I'm a writer."It took a second to click. Then Blake chucked. "Not just any writer. She writes paranormal porn."She turned, and snarled at Blake, "It's not porn. It is erotic romance.

Hazel Gower

#12. There's no need to make a big deal out of it," said Milo, but Glen was already moving towards the front door.
"I need to walk," he said. "I need to... I need to be free!"
And then he was gone, the door swinging closed behind him.
"What a dramatic young man," said Althea.

Derek Landy

#13. Next, I'm holding a bag of clothes, being herded toward an open door filled with sunlight. My briefs are still looped around my ankles, so I'm waddling, my erection swinging in front of me like a blind man's cane, and the talent wrangler has the nerve to say, 'Thank you for coming...

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Rufus Sewell

#15. Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again.

Stephen King

#16. I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Francis Ford Coppola

#17. Just then the door flew open, and Ambrose burst through, yelling like a madman and swinging a battle-ax in one hand.

Amy Plum

#18. No," he admitted, and my instincts sang out at his reluctance. "That's across the hall."
Crutch swinging, I started for the door, almost pushing Quen out of my way. "Just over there, you say?" I said,

Kim Harrison

#19. Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage."
"Courage?" he asked with confusion.
"Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.

Lynsay Sands

#20. Start each day off on the right foot.

Joe Vitale

#21. I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.

David Feherty

#22. I found this bag of fireworks in the men's restroom. Would you guys like to light them off?

Danny McBride

#23. No one will be with you forever in this life. The door will always be swinging open and closed. Love the people who enter. Let go of the people who leave.
Don't hang on.

Yasmin Mogahed