Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Bourke-White

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

Paul Gauguin

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

Lester Holt

You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

Lauren Oliver

I remember Lena's expression when he knocked on the door; and how Alex had looked at her when she finally let him into the storeroom. I remember exactly what he was wearing, too, and the mess of his hair, the sneakers with their blue-tinged laces. His right shoe was untied. He didn't notice. He didn't notice anything but Lena.

Pablo Picasso

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Pablo Picasso

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

Paul Muldoon

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

Paul Johnson

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

Patti LuPone

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

Patti Davis

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

Oscar Wilde

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

Maggie Jones

For our shelter to have to open its doors - it's a huge liability. You don't realize how small the world is.

Isak Dinesen

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

Idries Shah

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Harold E. Varmus

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

J. Michael Straczynski

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

J. K. Rowling

Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing... or at least" -- he strolled confidently to the door -- "Felix does.

J. K. Rowling

What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

J. K. Rowling

Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived, it was a load smaller, there was only one hammock and just Gryffindor hangings. But it's expanded as more and more of the D.A. have arrived.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, Whale Rider had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.

Keira Knightley

I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.

Kate Chopin

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

Kate Bush

All we're ever looking for is another open door.

Karen White

There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.

Karen White

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough

Julian Clary

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Kim Dae Jung

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

Kim Harrison

Trent looked me up and down. “Is that all you’re going to do?” My pulse quickened, and I gazed at the front of the basilica where the scratching was coming from. “I might have a snack later if nothing comes through those doors.

There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.

Mick Jagger

I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.

Michelle Malkin

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

Michael Pitt

There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.

Michael Koryta

Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.