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Quotes About Doors

Há muitas portas para Fantasia, meu rapaz. Há muitos outros livros mágicos. Muitas pessoas nunca percebem isto. Tudo depende da pessoa em cujas mãos o livro vai parar.
~ Michael Ende
Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.
~ Tony Tan
We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough
~ Karen White
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women; it has often cloaked a very real prejudice, even when it is offered in the name of science.
~ Betty Friedan
In office buildings and retail premises in which entry is through double doors and one of those doors is locked for no reason, the door must bear a large sign saying: "This Door Is Locked for No Reason.
~ Bill Bryson
The low doors of so many old European houses, on which those of us who are absentminded tend to crack our heads, are low not because people were shorter and required less headroom in former times, as is commonly supposed. People in the distant past were not in fact all that small. Doors were small for the same reason windows were small: they were expensive.
~ Bill Bryson
It was made completely of cast iron except for doors and floorboards—a design that would have given it all the charm and comfort of a cooking pot.
~ Bill Bryson
The ghastly facade of the Basilica loomed over them. Bronze angles above the doors troubled Romulan; as they had always troubled him. He did not understand why; perhaps he had heeded, unaware, some frightening resemblance to himself.
~ Tanith Lee
I didn't understand for a long time, but what attracted me to MtAoFC [Mastering the Art of French Cooking] was the deeply buried aroma of hope and discovery of fulfillment in it. I thought I was using the Book to learn to cook French food, but really I was learning to sniff out the secret doors of possibility.
~ Julie Powell
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
~ Juliette Binoche
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
~ Kahlil Gibran
I'm very grateful that 'Beale Street' was that opportunity for me to be introduced to the industry in that way and have some doors open for me.
~ KiKi Layne
Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.
~ Shimon Peres
Only super-rich folk built fancy doors. You needed money coming out your ears before you spent it on a door.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Everything had something behind it: life was like a long corridor with rows of closed doors.
~ Henry James
She [was] . . . one of those convenient types who don't keep you explaining --minds with doors as numerous as the many-tongued clusters of confessionals at St. Peters.
~ Henry James
A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without.
~ Henry James
All houses wherein men have lived and died / Are haunted houses. Through the open doors / The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, / With feet that make no sound upon the floors.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.
~ Genesis P-Orridge
The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
~ Richard Harding Davis
Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
~ Natalie Dormer
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
~ Frank Lautenberg
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
~ Shannon L. Alder
You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked
~ Bram Stoker