Doors Quotes - Page 27

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.

  Paul Auster

  Artist, Other Worlds, People

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.

  Jess Walter

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

  Rachel Zucker

  Halloween, Stranger, Disaster

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Stephen Malkmus

  Band

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jeff Bridges says that the reason he's one of the few stars in Hollywood whose made his marriage last for decades is that every time they think there's no more doors left to walk through in the room, they just keep looking and keep looking until they find one.

  Emma Forrest

  Stars, Thinking, Bridges

  4 Copy quote

• I often feel like the woman in your life is your driving force. She's your muse. She plays a big role in determining how confident you feel when you walk out the door. She can add 1,000 kilowatts of energy - or drain that out of you. She said, "No, you're not that funny." I thought, She knows better than anyone.

  Trevor Noah

  Play, Energy, Add

  Source: www.elle.com

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.

  Pam Houston

  Wine, Next Day, Land

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.

  Peter Jacobson

  Jesus, Lunch, Library

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds.

  Jill Soloway

  Israel, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think, I just always want to leave the door open for, you know, I don't want it to be finished. I've never gotten sick of a song, I've played them over and over and over again, and if I get bored with something, then I'll just change that thing.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Thinking, Sick

  "Swinging Modern Sounds #35: The Location Of The Soul". Interview with Rick Moody, therumpus.net. April 20, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long way toward broadening the perspective. Our role is to work together to create books that act as wide-open doors - books that allow all children to walk through and feel safe enough to stay.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Thinking, Different

  8 Copy quote

• My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.

  Nick Lowe

  Wall, Radio, Next

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Two, People, Doubt

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, "Attitude is everything, so pick a good one." You need a very strong internal knowing. For instance, when I sat down to write the book The Power of Intention, I had a very strong internal knowing that I call thinking from the end.

  Wayne Dyer

  Strong, Attitude, Book

  Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do think questions have been raised and questions have to be answered.And there is no way to predict what comes in the door of that White House from day to day that can pose a threat to the United States or one of our friends and allies, and I think this is a big part of the job interview that we are all conducting with the voters here.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Thinking, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source