Entrance Quotes

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. View quote
Tom Stoppard
The exit is usually where the entrance was. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Marriage is a covenant which hath nothing free but the entrance. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact. View quote
Howard Carter
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave. View quote
Temple Grandin
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. View quote
Vitruvius
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. View quote
Pierre Loti
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it. View quote
Hayden Fry
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. View quote
Martin Van Buren
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. (William Falconer)
Murphy had found a spot on the street, which made me wonder if she didn't have some kind of magical talent after all. Only some kind of precognitive ESP could have gotten us a parking space on the street, in the shadow of a building, with both of us in sight of the apartment building's entrance. View quote
Jim Butcher
A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood, The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm. The blinded man sees with his ears and hands As much or more than once with both his eyes. View quote
Robert Graves
It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it. View quote
Camille Paglia
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. View quote
Tom Stoppard
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. View quote
Ma Jian
There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that they [the troops] not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war. View quote
Hovhannes Bagramyan
When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited. (Isa Bowman)
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley. View quote
Charles Simic
The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles. View quote
Rick Riordan
If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way. View quote
Fran Drescher
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days. View quote
Joshua Slocum