Doors Quotes · Page 51

“I am only writing this now because I have grown so weary of doors without handles and windows looking nowhere”

— Tobias Wade

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

— David Means

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

— Truman Capote

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a…

— Tomie dePaola

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

— Viswanathan Anand

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and…

— Patti LuPone

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

— Tibor Fischer

Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Stop up the openings, Close down the doors, Rub off…

— Laozi

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have.…

— Melina Marchetta

Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door…

— Jana Oliver

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies…

— James Surowiecki

I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is…

— Danielle Panabaker

If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches…

— Karen Hancock

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.

— Tian Dayton

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man…

— Bill Monroe

Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting…

— Will Durant

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That…

— Barack Obama

What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman?…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we…

— Henry B. Eyring

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your…

— Queen Latifah

Let us not grow tired of knocking at God's door. Let us go to the heart of God through Mary, our whole…

— Pope Francis

You have two parties that are funded by deep corporate interests, largely overlapping, that you begin to see a convergence. You have…

— Jill Stein

I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on…

— Emo Philips

Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors - that's life.

— Caroline Flack

Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.

— Rumi

If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next…

— Sophie Monk

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

— Taylor Hanson

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

— Jeanette Winterson

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

— Solomon Ortiz

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

— Washington Allston

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

— Aldous Huxley

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

— Mark Twain

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

— Billy Joel

We are trying to make politics more open. It became a Ukrainian tradition to make decisions behind closed doors.

— Vitali Klitschko

My view on feng shui: don’t put your bed in front of the door because you won’t get in.

— Jonas Eriksson

What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?

— Eddie Izzard