The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key… and bolt the door at once. – Andrew Jackson
I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered. – Billy Connolly
If we’re talking about guys who set the tone, you’ve got to go way back. But if we’re talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles, Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door, along with Daniel Bryan. – A.J. Styles
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. – Christopher Hitchens
Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door. – Bill Rancic
I never know when somebody’s going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn’t have anticipated. – Anna Deavere Smith
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. – Charles de Montesquieu
I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night – or any other time, for that matter – unless they were dressed to the nines. – Anna Maxwell Martin
Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. – Brooke Shields
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. – Chinua Achebe
The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle – and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies. – Alistair Horne
I don’t want to put words in Geithner’s mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I’m pretty sure he felt that way about himself. – Andrew Ross Sorkin
Do I have any advice for someone new to No. 10? Never open the door in your nightie. And that everybody has to adjust to it in a way that’s right for their family. – Cherie Blair
Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. – The Bible Revelation 3:8
Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door. – Aaron Schock
I wonder: when a Jehovah’s Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He’s not home? – Brian Celio
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother’s front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister’s farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen’s screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse. – Andre Leon Talley
By 1931, after a few years’ experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight? – Burt Rutan
Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it’s just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that’s the key. – Aaron Neville
Of course, nobody’s tearing my door down. If you’re successful you’re going to intimidate and scare off the people you’d like to spend time with. They’re not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity. – Betty White
I’m the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it’s like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We’re such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I’m glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier. – Baltasar Kormakur
They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A. – Carl Hiaasen
You’re going to tell me that things aren’t right in Cuba, and so we shouldn’t engage. It’s lunacy. Look outside your door and see the inhumanity of Americans… that we perpetrate on a daily basis in our lives… and then tell me that you’re going to isolate Cuba as an example. I’m sorry; that’s unacceptable. – Arturo O’Farrill
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. – Barbara Cartland
The House Democrats don’t want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards. – Christopher Monckton
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you. – Buzz Aldrin
If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She’s always there making sure I’m all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she’ll go to dinner next door. – Ariel Winter
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it’s a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties. – Alan Rickman
