“Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]”

“Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door.”

James A. Michener book Centennial

“The younger generation will come knocking at my door.”

Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder

“Who knocks?’ ‘I, who was beautiful,
Beyond all dreams to restore,
I from the roots of the dark thorn am hither,
And knock on the door.”

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer

“If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.”

Joan Crawford (1904–1977) American actress

“With those eyes and his intellect, I see no real limit to his potential.
- Lasse Hallström (USA Today, April 19, 1995)”

Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer

“Every morning I walk like this around
the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.”

Borís Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian writer