Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Eggers

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

David Levithan

You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

Dolly Parton

What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.

Deepak Chopra

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

Andie MacDowell

I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.

Anna Quindlen

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

Angelique Kidjo

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

Andy Rooney

No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.

Andy Warhol

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

Andrew Pyper

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

Andre Gide

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.

Andre Gide

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

Anne Fortier

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

Chuck Jones

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

Christopher Paolini

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.

Christopher Moore

Then someone started pounding on the door. And not a little "Hey, what's up?" pound. Like there was a big sale on door pounds down at the Pound Outlet. Buy one, get one free at Pounds-n-Stuff. --Being the Journal of Abby Normal

Christopher Moore

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Anna Kendrick

If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.

Angela Knight

Has anybody ever told you you're an evil woman?" -Reece "Who, me?" -Erin "Yes, you." -Reece "Li'l ole me?" -Erin "Sadistic goddess you, yes." -Reece "Do you want me to stop?" -Erin "Do you want me to hold you down and bang you like a screen door?" -Reece "Don't threaten the sadistic goddess, Reece." -Erin

Anne Rice

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Anna Deavere Smith

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

Andrew Solomon

One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

Ambrose Bierce

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

Ally Carter

Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.

Ally Carter

Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?' 'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.

Allen Ginsberg

The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

Alistair Darling

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

Alison Krauss

There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today...

Andrea Gibson

I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

Andrea Dworkin

When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Ana Gasteyer

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

Aesop

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window