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Quotes About Doorway

The Baudelaires looked up and saw their guardian standing in the doorway of Violet's
~ Lemony Snicket
Sentence one is character + vocation + current situation. Sentence two starts with "When" and is what I call the Doorway of No Return––the thing that pushes the Lead into the main plot. Sentence three begins with "Now" and the death (physical, professional, or psychological/spiritual) stakes.
~ James Scott Bell
I think of death, not as a smokestack, but as an opening door.
~ Jane Yolen
Ranger appeared in the bathroom doorway and I was too relieved to be embarrassed. I appreciate you coming out in the middle of the night, I said. Ranger smiled. I didn't want to miss seeing you chained up naked.
~ Janet Evanovich
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
~ Josh McDowell
Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.
~ Howard Carter
Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden. The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
The headwaiter said something to her in the foyer, and she told him, "I'm looking for somebody," and went on to the doorway. She stood in the doorway, looking over the people at the tables in the room where a piano played.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Now what?" he finally asked. Téa came to stand in the doorway of her office. "Now what, what? Hey, is that you, Cal?" "Affirmative." Affirmative? Was that the cutest or what?
~ Christie Ridgway
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
the experience of aging is itself a doorway to spiritual practice, one that transcends any particular religion or faith.
~ Lewis Richmond
From the doorway I looked back at the street. The car parked outside was
~ Tony Parsons
Standing in the doorway, regarding him with an expression of predatory pleasure, was The Smoke.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
The front door flew open. A vampire in a long, slinky red dress stood framed in the doorway, flashing her fangs at them. "HAPPY HALLO—oh, it's you," she said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
May we all learn that pain is not the end of the journey, and neither is delight. We can hold them both—indeed hold it all—at the same time, remembering that everything in these quixotic, unpredictable, unsettled and unsettling, exhilarating and heart-stirring times is a doorway to awakening in sacred world.
~ Pema Chodron
to run. Jeff started to run after him, and Bob shouted after him as the two men in the doorway vanished into thin air. They disappeared and a door closed. Everything happened so fast, and the whole focus was on Jeff and the man he was chasing, as Millie ran faster and shouted at Jeff too. They weren't armed, there was no point chasing him down. If they got him, there was nothing they could do except
~ Danielle Steel
Music has both been my doorway to perception and the house I live in
~ David Bowie
Pierwsza moja Wizyta u Witkacego: dzwoni?, otwieraj? si? drzwi, w ciemnym przedpokoju potworny karze? ro?nie - to Witkacy otworzy? drzwi w kucki i z wolna si? podnosi?...
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Before I could open my mouth and let out the cranky comeback that was lurking there, a massive foot clomped at the doorway, and a large dark shadow fell over the shreds of my pleasant morning. I looked around, and there, in person, was the end of all happy thoughts. Detective Hood leaned against the doorframe and gave us his very best mean smile. "Looka this," he said. "Wall-to-wall loser.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I was standing in the doorway when he said hi," Amy said. "And from the look on his face, what he has for you is not the key to the city.
~ Jennifer Crusie
What was on the other side? Donna said, He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it. He... never went through it? That's why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn't see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever.
~ Philip K. Dick
Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.
~ Ilchi Lee