Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Arthur Ward

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

Warren Weaver

Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."

Walter Jon Williams

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

William Butler Yeats

There are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.

Will Arnett

Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.

Winston Churchill

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.

Rick Riordan

They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

Tracey Ullman

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

Robert Graves

Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

Sandra Cisneros

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

William Hazlitt

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

William Davis

In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room. Well now when you walk up to the door there's nothing there. Except maybe a folder with their name on it so you know who's in the room.

Walter Pater

A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

Physical security upgrades include improvements to an external door and holding cells,

Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

If your kids don't need to go door to door trick or treating this year, they probably shouldn't. If you can find an alternative like a mall, we highly recommend it.

If you have coyotes or other wildlife, they really have to work on it for a long time to even think about getting through. A pet door allows the pets to come back inside should something outside the fence scare them.

If you open the door between floors, there can be a fair gap between the shaft of the elevator and the frame of the elevator car,

In my mind, the kid writing on the stall door is the least important in the school.

In one sense we're doing it for a very tragic situation, but is it possibly opening up some doors for other possibilities.

Judy Greer

I ran out the back door and I said I need help, please help me. Then one (officer) went in the back, the other in the front.

Being big isn't such a great thing when you're trying to go through a narrow doorway or when you go to the mall because nothing there fits me.

Ken Stringfellow

Being emotional people and being in our 20s, we couldn't see a reconciliation ever happening at that time. It seemed so over. It seemed like the energy in it was completely played out. We didn't want to leave the door open. In pruning it back so viciously we didn't think it would grow again. But here it is growing again.

Damon Lindelof

His house has become a mecca for all the other actors. He opens the door for everyone to come over on Sundays.

He wouldn't unlock the door for me. He was standing there, saying, 'Why aren't you opening the door? I want to go inside.

Don Porter

In essence, he said the door is open, that reconsideration could be given,

Arthur Mitchell

In a situation where you don't think any of your roommates are home and you locked the door before you left, the first thing you should do before even putting the key in the door is turn the knob, ... If it turns, you should already be thinking that something might be wrong.

Matt Cartwright

I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.

Erik Larson

If you can imagine walking out your back door -- and where you ordinarily see somebody's yard, kids playing and houses and the streets and all that stuff -- what you would most likely have seen is a pile in which your neighbors where at that very moment being incinerated,

I remember I had to sneak the Jackson wrestling team in the back door so they could watch.

Brandon Roy

I remember sitting here last spring saying I want to leave out of here through the front door and not sneak out the back window.

Clayton Christensen

I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful.