Door Quotes
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When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, 'Emo, don't go near the cellar door!' One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun..
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.
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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
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I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
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I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.
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The door can never be closed for good to any player.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
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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.
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It's all really nice to have my pretend Secret Service people paying me respect, but the moment I walk in the door, it's back to being 'Mom.'
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I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
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My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right.
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I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
