Quotes about door
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Steven Wright photo
Jeanette Winterson photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Every wall is a door.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Janet Evanovich photo
Joseph Campbell photo
Ben Carson photo

“The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Janet Evanovich photo
Gustave Flaubert photo
Rick Riordan photo
Jim Butcher photo
Henry David Thoreau photo

“A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods

Christopher Paolini photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Hunter S. Thompson photo
Shunryu Suzuki photo

“What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Cassandra Clare photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher

Source: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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“The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Hanif Kureishi photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Marguerite Duras photo
Christopher Moore photo
Rachel Caine photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Douglas Adams photo

“The door was the way to… to… The Door was The Way.”

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.

Augusten Burroughs photo
Nikos Kazantzakis photo

“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”

Source: Zorba the Greek

Doris Lessing photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
Rachel Caine photo

“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

As quoted in "The Ragamuffin Legacy" https://relevantmagazine.com/god/practical-faith/ragamuffin-legacy (16 April 2013), by Ben Simpson, Relevant Magazine
1990s

Dave Eggers photo

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

Joel Osteen photo

“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open doors.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

Dorothy Parker photo
Richelle Mead photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Jane Austen photo
William Blake photo
Sylvia Day photo
Allen Ginsberg photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Jenny Han photo
Michael Ondaatje photo
Etgar Keret photo
Walt Whitman photo

“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

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Sarah Dessen photo
Meg Cabot photo
Stephen King photo
Lois McMaster Bujold photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Robert Jordan photo
Jonah Goldberg photo

“If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

Jonah Goldberg (1969) American political writer and pundit

Source: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Margaret Atwood photo
Anne Lamott photo

“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Charles Bukowski photo

“I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.

I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."

out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Jeanette Winterson photo
Rick Riordan photo
Heinrich Von Kleist photo

“But paradise is locked and bolted….
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.”

Heinrich Von Kleist (1777–1811) German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer

Source: On a Theatre of Marionettes

Patrick Rothfuss photo
Ayaan Hirsi Ali photo
Lev Grossman photo
George Bernard Shaw photo
Jim Morrison photo

“Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Source: The Lords and the New Creatures

Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Robin Jones Gunn photo

“When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: Sunsets

Cassandra Clare photo
Halldór Laxness photo
Salma Hayek photo

“This means you want to do sex in your house with your door open. And show to people the way you are doing sex.”

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)

Chris Eubank photo
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Theresa May photo

“Brexit means Brexit. The campaign was fought, the vote was held, turnout was high, and the public gave their verdict. There must be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum. The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that.”

Theresa May (1956) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech declaring bid for the Conservative Party leadership http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-mays-tory-leadership-launch-statement-full-text-a7111026.html (30 June 2016)