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

• 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

• Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Needs
  • Doors

• The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

  

  Gail Zappa
  • Problem
  • Composers

• I do not intend to prejudge the past.

  

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
  • Past
  • Intend
  • Prejudge

• Why was I worried? Because if, in everyday life, I was so embarrassed, so cautious, that I scarcely breathed, the diary produced in me a craving for truth. I thought that when one writes, it makes no sense to be contained, to censor oneself, and as a result I wrote mostly—maybe only—about what I would have preferred to be silent about, resorting among other things to a vocabulary that I would never have dared to use in speaking.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Truth
  • Worried
  • Embarrassed

• I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Feels
  • Responsible
  • Photograph

• 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