Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't think so. We just don't have the family supports we used to have. Used to be you grew up in a mill town, turned 18, married the girl next door and raised some kids. Now, with all the options and possibilities - longer lives, greater expectations - we're looking for marriage to be a companionship. We're looking for soul mates.

I don't know if I'll ever not look at that door when I'm in the living room at night and not see his face.

Dennis Quaid

I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.

J. G. Ballard

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

Jack Kerouac

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

Jack Abramoff

Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

One may know the world without going out of doors

It is a viable program because it opens up the doors of opportunities for emerging businesses. The issue is, simply without a program like this they won't look at those emerging businesses; they would have no reason to.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ""Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"" and so it goes away. Puzzling.

I saw the car. It was smoking. He said, 'Get me out of here.' I couldn't get the door open, so I pulled him out of the window.

People need to understand what's proposed here is a door opener for young people. Even if it seems hard to do, it'll be harder to succeed without it.

People have reacted very positively, and the recognition is good for Keyport. It's opened up a lot of doors for me.

Star Wars' opened the door to the idea of a franchise that could be successful, even if a sequel doesn't do well. It made viable the idea that, with sequels, the law of diminishing returns doesn't always apply.

Some local governments and local government entities feel like the flood doors are open for them to take people's property for economic development projects, and we don't think that's right.

That doesn't mean the door is shut. We're still willing to talk.

Byron Scott

That door is still open. It hasn't shut on us yet.

Judith Moore

Narrators of first-person claptrap like this often greet the reader at the door with moist hugs and complaisant kisses. I won't. I will not endear myself.

My worry is that we will not see tragic eyes walk through the door because we're closed,

Larry Brown

Man, it was more than words can say. We opened the door and there wasn't anything sitting there.

Bill Engvall

When the bus driver gets off the bus, who shuts the door?

Bill Cosby

I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.

Bill Bryson

A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. Again, that's normative behavior. I know growing up we never had our door locked. That has changed.

Ed Rollins

I wasn't the first one out the door. I was the last one out the door and I did everything I could to hold it together.

Milo Hamilton

I would immediately walk out the back door of the catwalk, facing the fans in the lower stands below. It was my silent protest, I suppose. It wasn't in me to stand up and be part of his act.

Jenny Lewis

I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

Charlize Theron

I was told to go to a director's house at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, so I went, thinking maybe this is the kind of thing you do. He opened the door wearing pajamas. I walked in, and he offered me a drink. I instantly knew what his intentions were, and it was not an option for me. I feel grateful I have this personality, but a lot of women don't. That's why I can't sit back and say, 'Things are great for me, therefore they're great for everybody else.'

We do look quickly before we go out the door now,

We recouped all of the incentives we put into the project within five years: They doubled the size of the plant, and they opened the door for all of the automotive we've done.

We had kind of gone flat. But then they opened the door for us, and gave us a chance.

I tell people to drive up to their house like they've never seen it before. Look at the mailbox since this is the first thing (prospective buyers) will see. If it needs to be repaired do it. If the door knocker is squeaky, fix it.

Brad Ausmus

I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind.

I think God opened the door for him. That makes him train even harder. If God's going to open the door for you and you don't step through it, shame on you.