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

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

The clue to one's next step toward the door of initiation may be revealed at the Full Moon during the sign of Taurus.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together.

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

I could put in garage doors or work in McDonald's but that's it. So I figured I might as well play the Nashville game.

As the season progresses, it's like the doors open up to all the different worlds that were teased about in the pilot.

Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

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

Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.

If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.

I'm committed to England, simple as that. I don't need to hedge my bets in keeping doors open or keeping things alive.

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

I knock on lots of doors, but you don't reach everyone that way - Twitter is just one of many ways of keeping in touch.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

Some Brexiteers are passionate defenders of the benefits of immigration. Others just can't wait to slam the doors shut.

I need to just make as much noise and bang on as many doors as possible 'til men are, like, giving you the recognition.

The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . .

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.

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