Top 1200 Behind Closed Doors Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

When a Brazilian player comes to England and is successful, he ends up opening doors to other players.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

I love when you take bizarre, non-human things and somehow make them human or accessible. I think that's why I like the practical effects. You can look at a creature and still see vulnerability or the character behind the creature. To get character behind CG creatures, that's so few and far between.

My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

My problem anywhere is the damn Republicans closed out the independents from being able to vote in the primary.

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

Dive bars rely on a steady stream of neighborhood regulars to keep their doors open.

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.

Whenever I would see horror movies I would be traumatized and I'd have to watch them behind my hands or behind the couch sometimes. So I grew up first with authors like John Bellairs and R.L. Stine for kind of the young adult horror. But I found Stephen King in the sixth grade and that was it. I became a rabid fan.

The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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

My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you.

The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

'Modern Family' has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful.

Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open

See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.

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

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

Overall, 'Singularity' has a certain lightness to it compared to 'Immunity.' It's less closed off; it doesn't have that claustrophobic sound.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

When you do what you're supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.

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

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because no matter what happens, good or bad, he's the guy. And you've got no chance of getting in. That's just the way it is. It's tough to play behind a future Hall of Famer.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

If it's the first kiss, it's important for the eyes to be closed so you know it's real. It's almost like a Disney movie!

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

'Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast members.

I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.