Quotes about door
doors sweat risk
I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much. Rick Riordan
doors hands pie
When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262) Raymond Chandler
doors enough desks
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk. Raymond Chandler
doors political promise
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. Reince Priebus
doors cells sometimes
There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts. Rick Yancey
doors annabeth giants
They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape. Rick Riordan
doors curtains impress
Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me! Trenton Lee Stewart
doors missing wool
I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. Tracey Ullman
doors fortune accompany
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. Torquato Tasso
doors tree waiting
Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door. Robert Graves
doors giving heaven
I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god. Robert Green Ingersoll
doors bricks crumbling
Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in Sandra Cisneros
doors people library
The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it. Ronald Reagan
doors worry looks
Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door. Robert Hunter
doors careers giving
I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic! Robert Pattinson
doors want sometimes
It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make. Robert Pattinson
doors helping persons
I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'd be kicked right out the door.
doors chess computer
For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one. Viswanathan Anand
doors library proud
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries. Walt Whitman
doors leaves-of-grass locks
Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs ! Walt Whitman
doors house mind
One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was a door. With Kirsten, it was the front one to our house, through which she was always coming in or out, usually in mid-sentence, a gaggle of friends trailing behind her. Whitney’s was the one to her bedroom, which she preferred to keep shut between her and the rest of us, always. Sarah Dessen
doors secret half
I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away. Sarah Dessen
doors keys giving
You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my necklace again. "And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know? Sarah Dessen
doors hopeful would-be
Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. Sarah Dessen
doors miracle complacency
Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb. Rod Steiger
doors feet acting
Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing. Robin Thicke
doors answers
When fear knocks, let faith answer the door. Robin Roberts
doors honey towns
There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?" Robert Plant
doors way next
Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. Sarah Zettel
doors said drivers
Penn station", Ali said to the driver, slamming the door. Then she turned back to Hanna. "We ditch the bitches", she said. "And then we take them down". Sara Shepard
doors fields musician
The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians. Vivian Campbell
doors land lakes
The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free. Willa Cather
doors energy attention
Put All of your Energy & Attention into Visualizing ... It's then that Doors Begin to Open for You Wayne Dyer