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Closing Doors Quotes (page 2)

Barbara Tuchman quote: "Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Barbara Tuchman
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why. Peter Mandelson
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors. Paul Schrader
People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors. Geoffrey Rush
Shelley Berkley quote: "What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business."
What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. Shelley Berkley
Stephen Baldwin quote: "I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors."
I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. Stephen Baldwin
Roy Ayers quote: "You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens..."
You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years. Roy Ayers
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. Barbara Kingsolver
Jodi Picoult quote: "Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window."
Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window. Jodi Picoult
Paulo Coelho quote: "close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or..."
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere Paulo Coelho
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " 'All the doors in his spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.' " As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did... Douglas Adams
And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder? people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world? or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness. Doug Coupland
The most formidable chains are forged from beliefs. Ah, beliefs! Beliefs tear out the eyes and leave us blind and groping in the dark. If I believe in one proposition, I have become locked behind the door of that belief, and all other doors to learning and freedom, although standing open and waiting for me to enter, are now closed to me. If I believe in one God, one religion, yes, if I believe in God at all, if I have closed my mind to magic, to spirit, to salvation, to the unknown dimension... Gerry Spence
The sight of these closed golden houses with their warmth of life awoke in him a bitter, poignant, strangely mixed emotion of exile and return, of loneliness and security, of being forever shut out from the palpable and passionate integument of life and fellowship, and of being so close to it that he could touch it with his hand, enter it by a door, possess it with a word--a word that, somehow, he could never speak, a door that, somehow, he would never open. Thomas Wolfe

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