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The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.
Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.
So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
As a rule, I don't enjoy being tossed into closets and having the door shut on my face, but I knew he was protecting me.
Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens
Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.
I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.
I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in the washing machine.
I lowered the gun but didn’t holster it. Not just yet. She could turn out to be psychotic. Or a door-to-door salesperson.
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.
We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough
There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.
I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.
Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.
True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.
I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors for me.
I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.
When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
Always walk out the door ahead of your dog when leaving the house. This will show your dog who is in the leadership role.
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.
There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.