Door Quotes

• There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Door
  • Separates

• And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • She
  • House
  • Dark

• Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

  

  David Rabe
  • Work
  • Door

• Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?' 'Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,' said Dumbledore. 'Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • House
  • Opportunity

• Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Up
  • Chance

• I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Sleep
  • Waiting
  • Doors

• Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Hope
  • Mean
  • Wonder

• We opened the door for women rappers.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Women
  • Door

• When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Door
  • Anonymous

• I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Path

• Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • College

• I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Though Rather is congenitally bad – an admirable heir to Walter Cronkite and his special form of treasonous broadcasting – more insidious are certain chirpy girl-next-door morning TV hosts who characterize the beliefs of ordinary middle-class Americans in terms that would make Goebbels blush.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Morning

• My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Door
  • Mirror
  • Grandmother

• I watch these old films in black and white, and suddenly the door opens, and there I am. The other day, I was wearing the most awful hat.

  

  Joan Hickson
  • Black
  • Door

• Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Die
  • Door

• I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • High
  • Door
  • Option

• I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

  

  Burn Gorman
  • Door

• In life, anything can happen, and I do not close the door to anything.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Life
  • Door

• Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Deep
  • Happiness

• My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Smile
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Age
  • Father
  • Door

• While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • War
  • Trust
  • Cold

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