Doors Quotes · Page 73

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

— Emily Dickinson

I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.

— Karen Marie Moning

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

— Ana Gasteyer

There is no state of final fulfillment. Each change opens new doors and ushers in new possibilities.

— Margo Adair

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

— George Burns

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to…

— Charles M. Blow

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

— Thomas Howes

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a…

— Max Lucado

Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into…

— Andrea Gibson

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else.…

— Nicole Kidman

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when…

— Ingmar Bergman

With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty…

— Ed Koch

I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back…

— Benjamin Boukpeti

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him…

— Robert Frost

I had left the visible, physical blue at the door, outside, in the street. The real blue was inside, the blue of…

— Yves Klein

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass,…

— Tupac Shakur

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the…

— Charles Dickens

If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and…

— Yann Martel

The light went on when I heard Phil [woods] play, and I went like, "That is why I'm playing the instrument." So…

— Jon Gordon

There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over…

— Marilynne Robinson

As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't see why people are so concerned at what other people do behind closed doors or in their lives.

— Kristian Nairn

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

— Juliette Binoche

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

— Eminem

“Some doors are open, but we are still searching for the right keys.”

— Alin Sav

You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.

— Chicken John

Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

— William James

Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened,…

— Natalie Dormer

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form…

— Jimmy Carter

How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How…

— Rossiter Johnson

Our massive sampling campaigns have been some of the largest in the professional hair care industry and were the foundation to building…

— Carolyn Aronson

I actually fall asleep really easily. I'm a bit of a scaredy-cat, though, I have to make sure that all the doors…

— Bel Powley

The beauty of TV is that it does not have to be live. In this case, rather than spending an hour or…

— Ali Velshi

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that…

— Helen Keller

Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at…

— Robert E. Lee

When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that…

— Lou Reed

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get…

— Rafe Spall