What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I’ve tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title. – Josh Groban
To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, ‘Ozzie’s Beach Whale of a Daughter,’ doesn’t really do much for your self-esteem at all. – Kelly Osbourne
If you do something really well, the entire world beats a path to your door. The number three, number five, number 400 player gets nothing. It’s almost a winner take all. – Lloyd Blankfein
You can’t even look outside because everything’s so crazy, especially in America. And I live in Detroit! There’s the economy, and the fact you can’t even open your door any more without going nuts. – Josh Malerman
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there’s a knock at the door, then you’ve done something pretty terrific as a writer. – Joanne Harris
I guess I’m not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I’m doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door! – Julie Bowen
I grow herbs near the back door, and you can grow a wonderful selection of herbs and window boxes… My idea is that you should grow what you eat. There’s no point in growing something like celeriac – which is very difficult to grow – if you hate it. – Mary Berry
I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through. – Kirsten Gillibrand
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they don’t conform to the reality that’s around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. – Kate Atkinson
I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does. – Jenna Elfman
It doesn’t matter how successful you are in this business, it’s tough to get through the next door. – Kevin Sorbo
I’m a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don’t have it that night, you don’t have it that night. But sometimes you’re like, ‘Give me that opportunity to grind through this’. – Jason Hammel
I can’t say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn’t respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean. – Jason Falkner
There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. – Marlee Matlin
Once I’m already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It’s like a giant box. It’s like the boy in a bubble. – Michael Phelps
At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines – perfectly eccentric – to walk out the door. – Karen Elson
Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States’ own safety, security, and economy. – James T. Walsh
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door. – Meister Eckhart
I see this fella built like a barn door… and there’s all these fox hunters, who didn’t like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something. – John Prescott
I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn’t stop. – Jon Hamm
I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs. – Lizzie Andrew Borden
When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked. – Lynn Good
Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There’s a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door. – Katha Pollitt
I tell young comics, ‘Do you want this badly enough? It’s there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I’m going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.’ – Jerry Lewis
I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one. – Jean Gabin
On one show before a live audience, I had to look out the door and call for Will Smith to come in. The audience couldn’t see him, but there he was with his naked butt staring me in the face. I didn’t normally hang out with twenty-something practical jokers, so sometimes he was a little much. – James Avery
