Doors Quotes - Page 17

• 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

  Kids, Car, House

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• I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, School, Boys

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

  Corey Ford

  Hair, Wife, Missing

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• Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Doe, Inward

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• Confidently open your most intimate aspirations to the Love of Christ who waits for you in the Eucharist. You will receive the answer to all your worries and you will see with joy that the consistency of your life which He asks of you is the door to fulfill the noblest dreams of your youth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Dream, Worry, Joy

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• There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get at meaning we can't get to through the front door.

  Phil Cousineau

  Soul, Stuff, Rooms

  Phil Cousineau (2003). “Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives”, p.20, Conari Press

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• You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Want, Come Up

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from May 15, 2012

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• No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

  Harvey Mackay

  Long, Treats, Determine

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• Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.

  Victoria Moran

  Heaven, Looks, Remember

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• Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

  Gary Lineker

  Football, Bridges, Skills

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• I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Opportunity, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot of religion. It knocks at the door of the heart. If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the devoted and pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Heart, Godly, Infidelity

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.62

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• I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

  Patti Smith

  Hate, House, Facts

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Men, Two, Icons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

  Tyler Perry

  Growing Up, Next, Helping

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room. Well now when you walk up to the door there's nothing there. Except maybe a folder with their name on it so you know who's in the room.

  William Davis

  Names, Would Be, Paper

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• I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really like what he did.

  Jackson Guthy

  Artist, Thinking, Justin

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Cities, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People abroad always tend to take what the best of what we have and come back through the back door always, say, and hit us with it. And then we wake up one day and say, I think I've heard that. Yeah, it was done by whoever, you know. So, ah, that's been one of our weaknesses we don't tend to hold on as they do there.

  Ben E. King

  Thinking, People, One Day

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• When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.

  Claudia Rankine

  Jobs, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about literary forms, they could write something dunderheaded about the author or their life (I've seen these and barfed at them), but anyone who is well-practiced and educated in literature - why would they leave that at the door when entering memoir?

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Writing, Entering, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

  DJ Khaled

  Trying, Key To Success

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• We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of the day worldwide? Or next door? Or in political or medical discourse? Please. That idea just makes me want to crap on a table at a very fancy restaurant.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Character, Ideas, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Kids, Play, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Band

  Source: therumpus.net

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