Top 1200 Closing Doors Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Having the opportunity to work with someone like Beyonce is definitely going to hopefully open a few doors.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

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.

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

This world will slam doors in your face at every opportunity. Be willing to employ a foot when necessary.

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

My plant-based diet has opened up more doors to being an athlete. It's a whole other level that I'm elevating to.

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

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

As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

I feel very lucky. 'Bake Off' has opened more doors for me. I was so delighted to get the job.

I had doors slammed in my face as a 14-year-old because my boobs were too big.

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

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

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.

All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.

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

I hoped 'Starlet' would finally open doors for me and lead to a much bigger budgeted movie, but that didn't happen.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

The music always takes us to different places. We'll just continue to play and see what doors open from there.

My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!

It really comes down to God opening the doors for me, and I'm trying to walk through them doing the best I can.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

'Power' has definitely been an immense stepping stone for me. It's opened up doors that I could only have dreamed of.

If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.

Should we have border security there? Yes. But the idea of the United States erecting a wall for the world to see makes a lie of everything we say about ourselves. It's a little bit like why the President [Barack Obama] and I feel so strongly about closing Guantanamo. It is inconsistent with who we are.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.

Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.

Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers.

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

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.

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

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

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

I'm not going to lie; having acting greats like Kamal Haasan and Sarika as parents has, in a sense, opened doors.

The American Dream is alive and well for some, but not all Americans. Here in South Carolina, rural hospitals are closing, schools are underfunded, and our coasts are threatened by offshore drilling. We need a Senator who's fighting to improve the lives of South Carolinians rather than focusing on interests in Washington D.C.

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

The sky is the limit now, us women are showing that we can beat men and hopefully it will open more doors.