Door Quotes

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Coco Chanel)
Every wall is a door. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. View quote
Ogden Nash
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. View quote
Christopher Morley
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference. View quote
Ralph Nader
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. View quote
Barbara Cartland
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? View quote
Erma Bombeck
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. (John Updike)
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. View quote
Graham Greene
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. View quote
Anne Rice
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window-or break down a door. View quote
Brooke Shields
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. View quote
Carl Sandburg
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. View quote
Djuna Barnes
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. View quote
Galileo Galilei
What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? View quote
Thomas Malory
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. (Omar Khayyám)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. View quote
Helen Keller
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. View quote
Bob Marley
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by. View quote
Ian MacKaye
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. View quote
André Gide