Doors Quotes
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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.
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Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.
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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."
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Hope opens doors where despair closes them.
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I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.
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I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye.
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If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.
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I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
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You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
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God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.
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Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
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There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
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Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
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I've enjoyed much success. The IRS is always at my door, constantly.
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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
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I aint gotta get a plaque, I aint gotta get awards I just walk up out the door, all the girls will applaud
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I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
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Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu think you fancy, huh? Look, uh, sweetheart, I don't speak Gucci or anything, but I'll give it my best shot.
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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
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So when the world knocks at your front door, clutch the knob and open on up, running forward into its widespread greeting arms with your hands before you, fingertips trembling though they may be.
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It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.
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Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.
