Doors Quotes - Page 15

• The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blessing

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• It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot of religion. It knocks at the door of the heart. If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the devoted and pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Heart, Godly, Infidelity

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.62

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• I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

  Patti Smith

  Hate, House, Facts

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Men, Two, Icons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

  Tyler Perry

  Growing Up, Next, Helping

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.

  Paul Auster

  Artist, Other Worlds, People

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays for me. I particularly like it when they pay for dinner or whatever, because I've pretty much done the opposite, but for the exception of James [Taylor], where we split everything down the middle. I've been the larger money earner in practically all of my relationships. There's equality and there are positive differences, which are complimentary.

  Carly Simon

  Men, Differences, Opposites

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  School, Sometimes, Double Life

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room. Well now when you walk up to the door there's nothing there. Except maybe a folder with their name on it so you know who's in the room.

  William Davis

  Names, Would Be, Paper

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• I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really like what he did.

  Jackson Guthy

  Artist, Thinking, Justin

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Cities, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People abroad always tend to take what the best of what we have and come back through the back door always, say, and hit us with it. And then we wake up one day and say, I think I've heard that. Yeah, it was done by whoever, you know. So, ah, that's been one of our weaknesses we don't tend to hold on as they do there.

  Ben E. King

  Thinking, People, One Day

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• It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.

  Jess Walter

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.

  Claudia Rankine

  Jobs, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about literary forms, they could write something dunderheaded about the author or their life (I've seen these and barfed at them), but anyone who is well-practiced and educated in literature - why would they leave that at the door when entering memoir?

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Entering, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

  DJ Khaled

  Trying, Key To Success

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• We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Ideas, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

  Rachel Zucker

  Halloween, Stranger, Disaster

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

  Wentworth Miller

  Thinking, Legends, Currents

  "Legends Of Tomorrow: Wentworth Miller On Whether Captain Cold Is A Hero". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ign.com. January 16, 2016.

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• When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Kids, Play, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Band

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.

  Chad Harbach

  Feet, People, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

  Gary Cole

  Shopping, People, Racing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

  Adam Young

  Nice, Home, Two

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• Jeff Bridges says that the reason he's one of the few stars in Hollywood whose made his marriage last for decades is that every time they think there's no more doors left to walk through in the room, they just keep looking and keep looking until they find one.

  Emma Forrest

  Stars, Thinking, Bridges

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