The Doors Quotes

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

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.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.

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.

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

There is no key to happiness; the door is always open

Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.