Door Quotes

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

~ Tomie Depaola

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

~ Andy Rooney

I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.

~ Frank Mccourt

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

~ Confucius

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

~ Kyle Chandler

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.

~ Loni Anderson

My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies.

~ Trevor Noah

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

~ Taylor Branch

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

~ Lauren Conrad

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

~ Zosia Mamet

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

~ Mike Lee

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

~ George Washington Carver

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

~ Timothy Murphy

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

~ Jerry Lewis

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

~ Trent Reznor

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

~ Havelock Ellis

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

~ Jonathan Ive

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

~ Dick Cavett

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

~ John Mcafee

When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.

~ Ian Frazier

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

~ Scott Baio

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

~ Eugene O'neill

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

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

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

~ Victoria Hanley

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

~ Roger Andrew Taylor

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

~ Tennessee Williams

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

~ Carl Sandburg

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

~ Donald Hall

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

~ Mae West

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

~ Saint Ambrose

No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.

~ Tim Daly

The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

~ John Burroughs

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

~ Hugh Jackman

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

~ Charles Dickens

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

~ Les Dawson

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

~ Peter Ustinov