The Painted Door Quotes

#1. I realize that lust stands high in the list of deadly sins. And yet lust - the tightening of the throat, the flushed cheeks, the raging appetite - is the only word accurate to describe the sensation I felt that morning, as the painted door closed and I was left with the liberty of all those books.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. Somehow the painted door now stood open. Blaise was following Livia through it, past Throgmorton's outstretched arm. Sunni shed her slippers and hurried after them, still not quite believing they were walking through what she had thought was only paint on a wall.

Teresa Flavin

#3. Smoke rose from my hand as it pressed against the white painted door

Rachel Caine

#4. Don't think so deeply ... so taking decisions will be difficult ...

Raheel Habib

#5. I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I'm going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.

Tom Hiddleston

#6. Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.

Dennis Oli

#7. Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;
Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
Faded credulity of earlier ages:
Let us walk through the door.

John Updike

#8. Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

Helen Dunmore

#9. This time when she picked up her paints, she didn't think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a storm. The canvas was her doorway and the paint all the thunder and lightning, the wild pain-filled sky caught inside her.

Michelle Frost

#10. You're seriously suggesting this?" Az interrupted, his face full of disbelief. "That I what, dump her so she kills herself? That's fucked up.

Leah Clifford

#11. Why I did so, other than that it frightened me

Nicholas Sparks

#12. I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.

Alasdair MacLean

#13. I have no signs on my door - it was painted a week ago - ,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. The front door is painted a rich, bright red. The corners of my mouth curl into a smile. Have I mentioned my love affair with red? It's a beautiful, trusting relationship. Nothing coated in such a wondrous color could ever be bad.

Victoria Scott

#15. The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.

Thomas J. Katz

#16. Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge

Charles Dickens

#17. Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

David Shrigley

#18. A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

John Updike

#19. The door swung open and three pint-sized...hookers...stared up at him, their glitter-glossed smiles slowly disappearing from their over painted faces.

Samanthe Beck

#20. GRUNT - "Term of affection used to denote that filthy, sweaty, dirt-encrusted, footsore, camouflage-painted, tired, sleepy beautiful little son of a bitch who has kept the wolf away from the door for over two hundred years.

H.G. Duncan

#21. The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

Suzanne Palmieri

#22. Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

Maya Angelou

#23. I see a red door and i want it painted black.

Rolling Stones