Front Doors Quotes - Page 5

• "That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!"

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doors, Done, Bells

  "The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, July 29, 1954.

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• He does this on purpose," Stephanie's mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to go. They watched him appear at the front door, shrug into his jacket, tuck in his shirt, go to step out, and then pause. "He looks like he's about to sneeze," Stephanie remarked.

  Derek Landy

  Mother, Doors, Car

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• Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s home, those dinners and holidays—I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you.” The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. “You, in the middle of that brash, bull-headed lot…I love watching you deal with your family. You’ve always been everything I thought a woman should be. And I have wanted you every second of my life since we first met.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Memories, Home, Holiday

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• You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

  Joyce Meyer

  Emotional, Doors, House

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• Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!” “Trap,” Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael’s arm as he walked by. “Don’t, man.” “What’s he going to do? Make faces at me?

  Rachel Caine

  Boys, Men, Doors

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.322, Penguin

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• Our goal is to give all Americans front-door access to the truth.

  Robert C. Maynard

  Doors, Giving, Goal

  Robert C. Maynard, Dori J. Maynard (1995). “Letters to my children”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck? Of course not, Bohr replied, but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Doors, House

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• Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

  Hugh Elliot

  Death, Doors, Way

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• While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

  Horace

  Doors, Clients, Slips

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• [On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.

  Fay Faron

  Home, Night, Doors

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• I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Doors, Lazy

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

  Keeley Hawes

  Thinking, Doors, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.

  Ntozake Shange

  Sympathy, Sorry, Apology

  Ntozake Shange, “'Sorry'”

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lying, Cat, Apology

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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• Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

  Peter S. Beagle

  Farewell, Doors, World

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• ...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.

  James McBride

  New York, Sibling, School

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.146, A&C Black

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• There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Echoes, Doors

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.39, Pottermore

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• The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

  Walker Percy

  Suicide, Morning, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• I don't have to pad my resume. Normal people are astounded by my resume, because normal people never let their dreams get beyond their front door, because they are scared of failure. I have never been scared of failure, and I have never failed.

  John Layfield

  Dream, Doors, People

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• People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.

  Mal Fletcher

  Doors, People, Matter

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• When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.

  Willie Aames

  Doors, Rottweilers, Reason

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• Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Country, Mean, Doors

  "Moore Is In The Line Of Clint's Ire". www.nydailynews.com. January 13, 2005.

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• I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.

  Bob Dole

  Dream, Keys, Doors

  "Clinton Honors Dole With Medal Of Freedom". www.cnn.com. January 17, 1997.

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