Trapdoors Quotes

#1. You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines ... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.

Steven Pinker

#3. The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptions in Latin; the magician hides his hinges, mirrors, and trapdoors with the utmost care.

Jack Vance

#4. Life is filled with trapdoors.

Brad Meltzer

#5. Sonata for Thunderstorm, Trapdoors and Young Women in Skimpy Clothing.

Terry Pratchett

#6. People want a little magic. Sex is its theater. There are sliding panels and trapdoors.

Janet Fitch

#7. Know what you desire, but, more importantly, why you desire it. That why was where the trick lay, I realized. Why was a land of trapdoors and hidden places, trees and rocks that looked like one thing, but were actually another.

Deb Caletti

#8. A trapdoor had slammed open at the edge of the arena, followed by another and another. Slowly, reluctantly, animals were forced through the gaps. Lions, tigers, bears. "Oh my!" said the Doctor, as the trapdoors slammed shut again.

Jacqueline Rayner

#9. But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

J.M. Ledgard

#10. As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

Edward Blake

#11. The best law for Bible study is the law of perseverance.

D.L. Moody

#12. People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Nicolas Chamfort

#13. Respond with love and kindness when someone trying to hate you and hurt you.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

Landon Liboiron

#15. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

Josephine Baker

#16. The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld