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Quotes About Doors

It was the secrecy I hated. but. Like we were ashamed. Cos we weren't - not really. It was like we were breakin' the law, an' I'm not even sure we were. Just cause we loved our child. - But it worked out okay, yeah? - Yeah, but it was wrong smuggling her o' the country. - You'll be voting yes, so? - I'll be waitin' for the fucking doors to open.
~ Roddy Doyle
Meanwhile, the secretive Senate met upstairs in a chamber without a spectator section. For the first five years, senators conducted their business behind closed doors.
~ Ron Chernow
The little green Ford had regular front-hinged doors, like most cars, and the doors had a restraint about two-thirds of the way through their travel, so stepping out meant stepping back too, which improved Reacher's angle. It put the engine block between him and the two guys. If they drew down immediately and started shooting from the get-go, he could hit the deck behind a bulletproof shield. If they had guns. Which was not proven.
~ Lee Child
And if the power is cut for any reason, even for an instant, the system fails safe and the doors automatically revert to locked.
~ Lee Child
belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too
~ Lewis Carroll
the massive doors found in hospital rooms. It seemed
~ Linda Howard
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
~ Aldous Huxley
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception
~ Aldous Huxley
There was nothing strange about it. Jed and i were on a covert mission. We had dinoculars, jungle, a quarry, a threat, the hidden presence of AK-47s and slanted eyes. The only missing element was a Doors soundtrack.
~ Alex Garland
Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan
~ Alexandre Dumas
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
~ John Fletcher
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
~ Juliette Binoche
Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
~ Jim Morrison
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
~ Jim Morrison
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
~ Jim Morrison
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
~ Anna Kendrick
Our massive sampling campaigns have been some of the largest in the professional hair care industry and were the foundation to building our distribution to 30,000-plus doors.
~ Carolyn Aronson
Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.
~ Douglas Wilder
What Aldo is good at is the leg kicks, that's what oppened a lot of doors for him. He would land those leg kicks, and then the shot would come from there, but in terms of his hands, he doesn't have, I mean he has power, of course he does, but nowhere near the power that I have, I promise you that.
~ Artem Lobov
The prospect of being able to run a race behind closed doors is absolutely feasible.
~ Christian Horner
A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others.
~ Maya Hawke
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh