Doors Quotes - page 2

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. (Walt Disney)
The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. View quote
Luther Allison
The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal. View quote
Olympia Brown
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of. View quote
Will Estes
I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot. View quote
Frank Abagnale
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. "The scholars" he answered, "are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science". View quote
Al-Biruni
All doors open to courtesy. (Thomas Fuller)
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to do it myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. View quote
William Hazlitt
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, - all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking. View quote
Saddam Hussein
It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other--for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended--the doors we had indiscreetly opened. View quote
Henry James
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. View quote
Harvey Milk
Welcome baby, It's your turn to live, They lie in wait for you, chicken pox, whooping cough, smallpox, Malaria, TB, heart disease, cancer, and so on. Unemployment, hunger, and so on. Train wrecks, bus accidents, plane crashes, work accidents, Earthquakes, floods, droughts, and so on. Heartbreak, alcoholism, and so on. Nightsticks, prison doors, and so on. They lie in wait for you, the atom bomb, and so on. Welcome baby, It's your turn to live. They lie in wait for you, socialism, communism, and so on. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'. View quote
Val Kilmer
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return. (Suzanne Collins)
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power. View quote
Menzies Campbell
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully. View quote
Leo Buscaglia