Famous Quotes & Sayings

But that opened up doors for his sponsors,

I make sure I teach more than just basketball. I teach my players to be good people on and off the court. I want them to be polite and open doors for other people. When we enter a restaurant, I want to make sure we leave it clean.

Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility --/ A fairer House than Prose --/ More numerous of Windows --/ Superior --for Doors --.

Tom Ridge

God forbid, there may come a time when the local authorities or national authorities will tell you that you've got to use them. But for the time being, we just don't want folks sealing up their doors or sealing up their windows,

If we can keep their scores down and score a few, then that's going to open up some doors for us.

Jesse Jackson

She sat down in order that we might stand up. Paradoxically, her imprisonment opened the doors for our long journey to freedom.

I feel good we ... knocked on the doors and ran on a message of keeping taxes low and reducing spending in Washington.

I feel like this opens a lot of doors for me that were shut. I'll be able to manage my life, get my life back.

Jesse Jackson

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.

Christopher Lee

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, 'an open door.'

Gary Allan

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.

Herbert Hoover

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

Evgeny Morozov

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'

Evgeny Morozov

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

Evelyn Waugh

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Evan Esar

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

Ernest Hemingway

When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.

Ethel Waters

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

Erma Bombeck

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

Erma Bombeck

Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood.

Erma Bombeck

I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.

Florynce Kennedy

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

Florence Scovel Shinn

All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.

Federico Garcia Lorca

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

Faith Hill

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

Eugenio Montale

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

Frances Perkins

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

George Washington Carver

To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.

George Washington

Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.

George Orwell

If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but then, what is work? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course - but then, many reputable trades are quite useless.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window