Keyholes Quotes

• What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Men, Curiosity

  Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 1971.

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• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  Billy Sunday

  Doors, Temptation, Devil

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

  Stephen King

  Time, Blow, Wind

  Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

  Judy Garland

  Finding Someone, Garlands, Findings

  NBC TV Interview, March 16, 1961.

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• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

  Mary McCarthy

  Witty, Eye, Past

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.

  Ethan Hawke

  Book, Eye, Intelligent

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• Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

  Laurence Sterne

  Together, Wickedness, Literature

  Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.200

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• My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

  Lykke Li

  Art, Reality, Escaping

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

  Gary K. Wolf

  Eye, People, Remember

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• Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."

  Marianne Williamson

  Unconditional Love, Doors, Keys

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 15, 2011

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• He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

  Molly Ivins

  Sarcastic, Eye, Narrow-minded

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• Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind

  Janet Frame

  Wise, Taken, Listening

  Janet Frame (1951). “The lagoon: stories”

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• I was
  the girl of the chain letter,
  the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,
  the one of the telephone bills,
  the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Connections, Coffins

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• By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

  Peter Ustinov

  Doors, Today, Size

  Christian Science Monitor, 1962.

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• Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

  Arthur Koestler

  Funny, Science, Eternity

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• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

  Mary McCarthy

  Atheist, Eye, True Life

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Skeletons, Keys, Leaving

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• Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

  Margot Asquith

  Brain, Would Be, Looks

  "Ego 5" by James Agate, London: Harrap, (p. 136), 1942.

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• You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

  Billy Wilder

  Animal, Turkeys, Elephants

  "Fictional character: "Bim" Nolan". "The Lost Weekend", 1945.

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• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  Arthur Miller

  Mother, Father, Self

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

  Benjamin Percy

  Writing, Views, Empathy

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• I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children." "But this isn't yours," I pointed out. "My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.]

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Cat, Magic

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• The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Practice, People, Good Man

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• Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Despair, Criminals

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• These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

  Edgar Degas

  Simple, Decent, Concern

  "Degas bronze for auction" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2002.

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