Doors Quotes - Page 5

• They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Believe, Atheism, Belief

  "A Miracle of Saint Antony and Five Other Plays".

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• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Unhappy, World

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• I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

  Faith Hill

  Opened Doors

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• Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.242, Vintage

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• 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

  Anniversary, Want, Punctuation

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

  Bernard Malamud

  Tattoo, Wall, Men

  1973 Rembrandt's Hat,'The Man in the Drawer'.

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• Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Weather, Movement, Literature

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• Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

  Donald Justice

  Funny, Meaningful, Men

  "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)

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• To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

  Al Oerter

  Exercise, Training, Way

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• Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

  Jessica Biel

  Alive, Sexiest, Huge

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• I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Gay, Albums, Looking Forward

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

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• Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

  Tia Carrere

  Beautiful, Brain, Exclusion

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

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• Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

  Christine Baranski

  Careers, Roles, Television

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• For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors

  Lloyd Bridges

  Character, Years, Doing Me

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• If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Reality, Deep Life

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• I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

  Slick Rick

  May, Littles, Controversial

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• I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

  Todd Barry

  Atlanta, Kingdoms, Next

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• Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Idaho, People, Emigration

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world

  Robert Caro

  Light, World, Down And

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• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Decision, Secret, Capes

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• Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

  Paul Schrader

  Creativity, Artist, Opposites

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• I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

  Maxine Waters

  Thinking, Kicking It, Mad

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• Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

  Philip Massinger

  Thousand

  Philip Massinger (1761). “Dramatic Works: The guardian. A very woman. The old law. The city madam. Poems on several occasions”, p.177

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• I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved.

  Russell Wilson

  Dream, Jesus, Morning

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• Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.

  Will Arnett

  Development, Arrested

  "Will Arnett: The TV Squad Interview". August 02, 2006.

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