Doors Quotes - Page 31

• God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Opportunity, America

  "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great". Book by Benjamin Carson, 2012.

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• I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr Right moved in next door?'

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Nice, Thinking, Mr Right

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Gun, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

  Don Cheadle

  Friday, Night, Brain

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• Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, Thinking, Next

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• Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors!

  Kelly Clarkson

  Girl, Next, Neighbor

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• I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

  Nick Clegg

  Kids, Home, People

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• If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Military, Opportunity

  Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

  George Clooney

  Basketball, Awards, Play

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• I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.

  Billy Connolly

  Dog, Independent, People

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• I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Nice, Dating

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• Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.

  Simon Cowell

  Doe, Shots, Turns

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• I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

  Joan Crawford

  Girl, Stars, Looks

  Interview in "Los Angeles Times", 1937.

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• The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

  Aleister Crowley

  Religious, People, Able

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 3, 1969.

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• My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Inspirational, Sexy, Home

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• You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

  Chris Daughtry

  Thinking, Reason, Reason For Everything

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• It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

  Larry David

  Cousin, Growing Up, Aunt

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

  Geena Davis

  Elbows, Arms, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

  Richard Dawkins

  Miracle, Faces, Radio

  "God vs. Science". Interview with David Van Biema, content.time.com. November 5, 2006.

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• The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Rain, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

  Jim DeMint

  Country, Class, America

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• Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

  Daniel Defoe

  Vices, Inclination

  'Moll Flanders' (1721)

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• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Dad, Funny Motivational

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  Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Umpires, Justice

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.510, Booklassic

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• Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Encouraging, Spiritual, Not Giving Up

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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