Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Context: The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Muir's marginal note in volume I of Prose Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson (This volume is located at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. See Albert Saijo, "Me, Muir, and Sierra Nevada", in Reinhabiting a Separate Country: A Bioregional Anthology of Northern California, edited by Peter Berg, San Francisco, California: Planet Drum Foundation, 1978, pages 52-59, at page 55, and Frederick W. Turner, Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours (1985), page 193.)
1870s
“But wit cuts its bright way through the glass-door of public favour;”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Monthly Magazine
“The nearest way to God
Leads through love's open door;
The path of knowledge is
Too slow for evermore”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
The Cherubinic Wanderer
On kissing scenes in films, as quoted in " You want to do sex in your house with your door open http://www.punemirror.in/pune/cover-story/You-want-to-do-sex-in-your-house-with-your-door-open/articleshow/49875892.cms" Pune Mirror (22 November 2015)
“Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.”
Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author
Is It Bill Bailey? (TV, 1998)