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Quotes About Door

The door opens and the tiger leaps.
~ Virgina Woolf
Unhappiness is everywhere; just beyond the door; or stupidity, which is worse
~ Virginia Woolf
Quinientos a la semana y una puerta con pestillo.
~ Virginia Woolf
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
before picking up the spilled diamonds, she locked the door and embraced him, weeping — the touch of her skin and silk was all the magic of life, but why does everybody greet me with tears?
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The name yawned like a black doorway, then the door banged.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
a side door crashing open in life's full fight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Gyvenime, lekian?iame visu grei?iu, su trenksmu atsiv?r? šonin?s durel?s, pro kurias ?siverž? juodos amžinyb?s raudojimas, v?jo g?si? kauksmu nustelb?s vienišos ž?ties riksm?.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
She started to reach for the door and was shocked to feel his fingers clamp down around her wrist. Shocked, not because she found his touch offensive, but because of the jolt of heat—of pure, sensual awareness—that brief connection sent through her body.
~ Lara Adrian
Well, the first reaction was, What smoke? When I looked and saw it, and we all ran to the back where we were far away from the flames-cowards as we are, you know-all sat around the emergency door and even tested the emergency door, ready to jump out. Of course, I said, Beatles and children first.
~ Larry Kane
Things have happened—so fast. Ten days ago, we didn't even know Rudy was sleeping rough again." "Isn't that a British term?" "It is." Mrs. Drysdale is allowed to speak to this at least. "But Rudy liked it. He said it was more like the way he lived. He wasn't homeless. Our door was always open to him. Always.
~ Laura Lippman
the April day when the Americans mounted the stone steps and pushed the door buzzer, rain had fallen for eleven of the last eleven days, and Aldine McKenna was waiting,
~ Laura McNeal
Beyond this Door, Heaven waits.
~ Laura Whitcomb
upon opening the door. Half of the small
~ Lauraine Snelling
I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.
~ Lauren Myracle
He took the word in his pocket, and the gift in his heart. Then he closed the door. Christmas was starting. (Il prit le mot dans sa poche, et le cadeau dans son cœur. Puis il ferma la porte. Noël commençait.)"
~ Charles de Leusse
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
~ Charles Dickens
I know this messenger, guard," said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road—assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. "He may come close; there's nothing wrong.
~ Charles Dickens
But there was nothing on the back of the door, except the screws and nuts that held the knocker on, so he said "Pooh, pooh!" and closed it with a bang.
~ Charles Dickens
III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards
~ Charles Dickens
On the stairs I encountered Wemmick, who was coming down, after an unsuccessful application of his knuckles to my door.
~ Charles Dickens
at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X.
~ Charles Dickens
VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII.
~ Charles Dickens
Shadow IV. Calm in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards
~ Charles Dickens