Doors Quotes

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stay Alert, and doors will open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
- Flora Whittemore

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

When you follow your bliss... doors will open
where you would not have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
- Milo Ventimiglia

When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus

The politics of the Cape Town Metro,
which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make
secret decisions which affect you,
behind closed doors, is wrong!
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi

When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

When I watched Ellen come out in '97,
my jaw was on the floor.
I thought, There are some people who break the doors down,
hold them open, and some people who walk right through.
- Portia de Rossi

I have witnessed how education opens doors,
and I know that when sound instruction takes place,
students experience the joys of new-found knowledge
and the ability to excel.
- Daniel Akaka

All doors open to courtesy.
- Thomas Fuller

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage.
Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered
me a feature role in a movie.
My television career opened other doors for me.
- Christine Baranski

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad.
He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers.
He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
- Jennifer Aniston

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
- Stephen Baldwin

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me
to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
- Eminem

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of
opportunity for African Americans,
when other doors were closed.
- Lynn Swann

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors
where there were only walls.
- Joseph Campbell

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
- Val Kilmer

Doors open because you're beautiful,
but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.
- Tia Carrere

We must open the doors of opportunity.
But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something
you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can
open up the doors to musical inspiration.
- Ken Hill

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers
are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
- Maxwell Maltz

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark,
when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
- Charles de Lint

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go -
if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
- Bernard Malamud

I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge.
It opened so many doors for me.
- Marla Sokoloff

The fact is...
our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies
willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
- Orrin Hatch

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just
getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
- Doug Coupland

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
- Zahi Hawass

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity
to industry and commerce.
- Alan Autry

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of
people to play the blues.
- Luther Allison

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world,
in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning
and the wellspring of creativity.
- Jean Houston

There are things known and there are things unknown,
and in between are the doors of perception.
- Aldous Huxley

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo,
came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors
that that technique opened for me.
- Evan Parker

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house,
slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise.
Time goes by so quickly.
Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.
- Perry Como

The Doors movie is a pack of lies.
It did not make money.
You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
- Ray Manzarek

I feel very adventurous.
There are so many doors to be opened,
and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
- Elizabeth Taylor

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the
moving and relocation business.
I did that for 10 years, am still doing it.
And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.
- Ernie Banks

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time
when there was no threat of terrorism,
when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom
and Dad took care of everything.
- George Grove

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
- Elmer G. Letterman

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything;
it just ticks off the possibilities.
Opens all doors.
You can walk through anyone that suits you.
- Jim Morrison

By and large the United States has been able to resist
the temptation to close its doors to the world.
- Roger Mahony

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could
make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
- Laura Miller

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
- Clarence Thomas

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets,
and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
- Robby Krieger

Know how weather, especially humidity,
can affect the movement of doors and windows.
- Marilyn vos Savant

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

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself
assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
- Thurgood Marshall

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble.
They were in bad trouble.
They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few
days from closing their doors.
I was on my last leg.
- Toby Keith

I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of
the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want
to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
- Bess Truman

What exists outside is a man's concern;
let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
- Aeschylus

It was still quite light out of doors,
but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim,
uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
- Kate Chopin

John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city
opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.
- Mink Stole

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure,
and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
- William Hazlitt

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
- Marianne Faithfull

People stay married because they want to,
not because the doors are locked.
- Paul Newman

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life:
I shall find one.
- Philip Massinger

I don't think it works to just be mad at them -
Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors.
It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
- Maxine Waters

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms
they will not be Coming back to.
- Donald Justice

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month.
My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half
below the freezing point,
within doors.
- Gilbert White

It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing.
It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down
by doing the stuff that he believed in.
- Joe Rogan

You start to think bigger when you see how quickly
a TV show can catch on in a whole country.
That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.
- Andrew Shue

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat.
People are risking death, drowning every day,
but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors.
It showed that if you were working in animation you
didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
- Seth MacFarlane

Supermarket automatic doors open for me;
therefore,
I am.
- Craig Bruce

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were
supposed to be closed when there were things going
on that we weren't supposed to see,
and when our pants were down.
- Lynette Fromme

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds,
with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw
to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.
- Robert Fortune

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