The Doors Quotes

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?'

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

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.

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.

The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

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.

I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door.

Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around.

Isn't that ridiculous to show Peter standing at the gates of Heaven with a ring of keys? The doors are already unlocked for us, all we've got to do is walk in through the front gate!

Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!'

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.

Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

I want to make a revolving door that says 'Pull' on it, just see how obedient people are.

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.

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.

He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.

There's never been a blueprint, I just keep exploring doors as they open. But whenever people would ask me what's my favorite thing to do, it was sitting in for Larry King.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.