Door Quotes

Reality is a sliding door.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

I'm like the girl next door... I just have a bad streak.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

I can ski out of my back door.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

I was never the girl next door.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'

The door can never be closed for good to any player.

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.

Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

My door is open.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.