Top 1200 Secret Doors Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

Though it`s a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.

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.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.

I think most I regret the way I treated Dr. Dre after he so graciously opened the doors to his kingdom to me.

No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.

The therapy has been on and off, but I'll always go. I notice when I don't go, I start creating bad habits for myself. It's up to me to put in the effort. And I definitely watch The Secret a lot. That's part of my therapy: positive thinking. Really seeing yourself having everything you want, and feeling the emotion of having that. I did that about a Grammy. When The Secret came out, I was saying, "I'm going to win a Grammy." And I went there with my hypnosis and believing, really feeling what it would be like to have one.

Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible.

No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

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

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.

The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween

I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I got into it... But I don't feel like a king.

The Immigration Act of 1924 closed our doors to virtually all non-European immigrants - a great wrong that was not rectified for decades.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.

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

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.

Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.

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

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

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

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's the reason for the story. I hint at the secret early on. Immediately I want the reader to get the feeling that something here isn't quite right. It helps maintain the suspense if a puzzling element is introduced in the first few pages of the book, but the answer isn't revealed until the final ones. Hopefully, readers want to know what the heck is really going on, and it's the desire to find out that keeps them turning pages.

Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. "Right," simon said. He had already lost count of the numbers of birds there were. Seven, he guessed. A secret that's never been told. Whatever that was.

High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

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

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

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

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

'Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening up doors.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

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.

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

Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.

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

I do know I've lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

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.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.