Hallways Quotes

• Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Doorways

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.25, Moody Publishers

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• When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

  Rick Jarow

  Doors, Careers, Long

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• But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Waiting, Coming Back

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Funny, Doors, Next

  Twitter post from Jun 04, 2016

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• But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

  Hunter Hayes

  Rebel, Different, Outcast

  Song: Invisible Hunter Hayes, Album: Storyline, 2014

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• It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

  Alexander Woollcott

  Doorways, Likes, Chance

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• The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

  Sean O'Casey

  Wise, Gay, Men

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• If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

  Patricia Briggs

  Important, Looks, Figures

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.191, Penguin

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• Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

  Ann Patchett

  Fate, Doors, Long

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• I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

  Piper Perabo

  Girl, People, Way

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• It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

  Sofia Coppola

  Life, Running, Missing Someone

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• There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.

  Paul David Tripp

  Live Life, Character, Rooms

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• I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

  Amy Adams

  School, Numbers, Musical

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• It doesn't cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.

  Tony Hsieh

  Eye, Cost, Corporations

  Interview with Peter Hopkins, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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• And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

  Richelle Mead

  Cowboy, Vampire Academy, Simile

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.174, Penguin

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• I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Beauty, School, Kids

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• I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

  Britney Spears

  Fear, Long, House

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• I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to ‘their song.’ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Song, Couple

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Girl, Palaces, Entrances

  "Strange Angels (Strange Angels, Book 1)". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

  David Horowitz

  Names, People, Mouths

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• I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like "I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus."

  Eliza Coupe

  Teacher, Kids, Math

  "Eliza Coupe on the Comedic Origins of Happy Endings, Her Passion for Michael Fassbender, and her Obsession with Ace Ventura". GQ Interview, www.ucbcomedy.com. February 2012.

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• Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Dark, Light

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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