Doors Quotes

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

William Hazlitt
- Pleasure
- Regret
- Quitting
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

William Arthur Ward

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.

Stella Benson
- People
- Found
- Faults
There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

Saadi
- Eyes
- Eye
- Door
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.

William Randolph Hearst
- Path
- Enough
- Advertising
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.

Sean William Scott
- Long
- Easy
- Window
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
Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

James Keller
- Hope
- Doors
- Opens