Famous Quotes & Sayings

Veronica Roth

I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.

Robert Fripp

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

Robert Bly

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Rita Dove

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

Rene Daumal

The door to the invisible must be visible.

Thomas Paine

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

Thomas Secker

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

Thomas S. Monson

The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.

Robert Kennedy

If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.

Robert Grosseteste

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

Robert Ballard

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

Richard M. Nixon

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

Richard Russo

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

Robert Caro

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world

Richard Powers

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

Tupac Shakur

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out,they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?

Trevor Noah

I often feel like the woman in your life is your driving force. She's your muse. She plays a big role in determining how confident you feel when you walk out the door. She can add 1,000 kilowatts of energy - or drain that out of you. She said, "No, you're not that funny." I thought, She knows better than anyone.

Tracy Morgan

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

Tori Amos

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Rodney King

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

Robert Redford

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

Richard P. Feynman

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar

Richard Dawkins

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

Richelle Mead

I have to get back there." I said to Adrian. "Into that door." He arched an eyebrow. "What, like sneaking in? How very black ops of you. And oh, you know— dangerous and foolish." "I know." I said, surprised at how calm I sounded as I admitted that. "But I have to know something, and this may be my only chance." "Then I'll go with you in case that guy comes back," he said with a sigh. "Never let it be said Adrian Ivashkov doesn't help damsels in distress.

Richelle Mead

There's a guy chasing me!" I called as I headed out the door.

Richelle Mead

Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression.

Ryan Lewis

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

Ryan Kwanten

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

Ronnie Dunn

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

Ron Clarke

The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.

Tyler Perry

I thank God for Closed Doors

Truman Capote

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

Rick Riordan

The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!' 'Valdez who?