Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Icke

Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?

Edna Ferber

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

Bobby Flay

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

Barbara Tuchman

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

Arthur Conan Doyle

His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.

Baltasar Gracian

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Ariel Pink

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

Arianna Huffington

Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.

Diane Ackerman

Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.

Demetri Martin

I want to make a revolving door that says 'Pull' on it, just see how obedient people are.

Demetri Martin

How to be a bouncer: be an asshole; stand near a door.

Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Dean Koontz

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

Dean Koontz

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

Daniel Handler

This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

Dan Ariely

One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".

Craig L. Thomas

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

Elizabeth Scott

Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you.

Aprilynne Pike

May as well leave the door open.

Bayard Taylor

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

There are no leaks in the hangars and the doors are sandbagged. The Pluto spacecraft is doing fine.

The only way she would have opened her door that late at night is if she thought it was a police officer.

Frank Rijkaard

We did our job very well and this win opens the door to the championship,

We didn't want to go knocking on doors in the dark.

Charles Bukowski

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

The world is beating a path to our door

Brian Tracy

Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.

Brian Jacques

your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.

Brad Goreski

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Brad Dourif

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

Jane Hirshfield

Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.