Door Quotes - page 8

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny. (Chuck Jones)
There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
He that holds fast the golden mean,And lives contently betweenThe little and the great,Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door. View quote
William Cowper
Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door. View quote
Nigel Farage
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust. View quote
Ron Reagan
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
When one door closes, fortune will usually open another. View quote
Fernando de Rojas
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door. View quote
James A. Michener
Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease. View quote
Jane Austen
The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at play Through the meadow land toward a closing door A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before. (Johnny Mercer)
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. View quote
Billy Sunday
The younger generation will come knocking at my door. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time. View quote
Tibor Fischer
Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road. View quote
Tibor Fischer
Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind. View quote
José Saramago
I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him. View quote
José Saramago
Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. View quote
T. S. Eliot
I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison. View quote
T. S. Eliot
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. (T. S. Eliot)
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. View quote
John Muir
Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around... View quote
Dave Matthews
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? View quote
George Sand
When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'. View quote
Dylan Moran