“If God had to build a door, it’s because we erected a wall.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Every new generation seems to have to go through its Doors rite of passage. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
If 'Passage' works, then maybe they will ask me to play James Bond; if not, then I will play the villain. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
Read your own compositions,and when you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. — Hank Nuwer Copy Share Image
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Don’t waste time with pointless questions.” Yes, this king wasn’t one to mince words at all. “You must go to her rooms.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had;… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact… — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“...there was an extraordinary mute passage between her vision of this vision of his, his vision of her vision, and her vision… — Henry James Samuel Guntrip Copy Share Image
“My darkness reaches out and fumbles at a typewriter with its tongs. Your darkness reaches out with your tongs and grasps a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I loved her. I did not know what state of mind I would be in when I got where I was going… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort.… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and,… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
“Growing up seems easier for men, maybe because their rites of passage are clearer. They perform acts of bravery on the battlefield… — Suzanne Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“But the penultimate paragraph of the novel is naturally the passage I wrote first. “When we held Owen Meany above our heads,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“They turn the water off, so I live without water, they build walls higher, so I live without treetops, they paint the… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“Why d’you read then?” “Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden, My daughter is… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge,… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“I have lived a big life. For that I am grateful. But as one disengages from it and grows more reflective and… — David Paul Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
