Joyce Kilmer Quotes

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Joyce Kilmer

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• My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Trump

• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Wrong
  • Doors
  • Philosophical

• Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Mean
  • Imagination
  • Doors

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Nice
  • Try
  • Doors

• It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Name
  • Doors

• Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

  

  G. Frank Lawlis
  • Love
  • Human
  • Existence

• I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Doors
  • Stealing
  • Arson

• The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Opportunity
  • Doors
  • Swings

• I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Experience
  • Mother
  • Door

• Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Friends
  • War
  • Opinion

• Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems. ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one.

  

  K Callan
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Responsibility

• The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Joy
  • Doors
  • Creatures

• Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Control
  • Alone
  • Poverty

• She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • She
  • Light
  • Fly

• Righteousness exalteth a nation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Nation
  • Righteousness
  • Exalteth

• Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Doors
  • Families
  • Dramas