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Quotes About Door

I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
~ Ralph Brown
Go into the cottage, go out of my mind. Those had been my ritual words when I fortified the Wee Cottage and banished her from my garden. Might I have inadvertently created yet another inside-out house? What if that door led out of my self-constructed fortress and into the world? The egress might have been right in front of me all along.
~ Rachel Hartman
Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man.
~ Rachel Hauck
Jason pulled me into the driveway, turned off the car, and kissed me. Then it got kinda weird. It was like: Where should our last kiss be? In the car? At the door? Inside the foyer? Outside my bedroom?
~ Rachel Hawthorne
No despreciéis el poder de la fealdad, porque es la puerta de la estupidez y ésta lo es a su vez de la maldad
~ Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
Snake pulled out the digital camera and decided to play a joke on Otacon. He snapped a picture of the pinup, muttered, "Good," and closed the door.
~ Raymond Benson
Die Hoffnung wohnt oft hinter der Tür, an die zu klopfen, einem nicht einfällt.
~ Rebecca Gablé
When City came calling, I researched the club, but when I first came through the door, it was weird: it was a big club but at the same time a small club.
~ Vincent Kompany
A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house.
~ Raymond Carver
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
~ Raymond Chandler
The pebbled glass door panel is lettered in flaked black paint: Philip Marlowe...Investigations. It is a reasonably shabby door at the end of a reasonably shabby corridor in the sort of building that was new about the year the all-tile bathroom became the basis of civilization. The door is locked, but next to it is another door with same legend which is not locked. Come on in--there's nobody here but me an a big bluebottle fly. But not if you're from Manhattan, Kansas.
~ Raymond Chandler
He opened the rear door and I got in and sank down into the cushions and George slid under the wheel and started the big car. It moved away from the curb and around the corner with as much noise as a bill makes in a wallet.
~ Raymond Chandler
Oh sure, I'm her husband. That's what the record says. I'm the three white steps and the bug green front door and the brass knocker you rap one long and two short and the maid lets you into the hundred-dollar whorehouse.
~ Raymond Chandler
I got back on the runway and took all of it and some of the hedge and gave the front door the heavy shoulder. This was foolish. About the only part of a California house you can't put your foot through is the front door. All it did was hurt my shoulder and make me mad.
~ Raymond Chandler
As they neared the door at the rear, left open for them by Joftaz, James felt a flush of excitement. No matter how high he might someday rise in the King's service, there was a part of him that would always be Jimmy the Hand.
~ Raymond E. Feist
The door to this era's potential paradises is hell.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Une porte s'ouvrit. Une jeune fille entra. Le printemps entrait avec elle.
~ René Barjavel
Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.
~ Richard Brautigan
Good work,' he said, and went out the door. What work ? We never saw him before. There was no door.
~ Richard Brautigan
Is he blaming her? Does he think she led on El Captain or was having a relationship with him at the same time as Bradwell? She turns and wals, unsteadily, along the walls of the airship, to the door in the cabin, now almost overhead, that leads outside.
~ Julianna Baggott
the moon. Just a curved sliver of light, like the door of heaven had been left slightly ajar.
~ Julie Anne Long
the firelight threw his shadow nearly to where she stood at the door. Elise took an unconscious step back from it, as though it were a spill of lava.
~ Julie Anne Long
She nodded. Nick opened the door, but she paused on the threshold. Noah? What's your last name? Clayborne, he answered. Noah Clayborne.
~ Julie Garwood
You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.
~ Juliet Marillier