Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION:   door

Quoted In The Grove:
My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline – she always says, ‘Mummy, keep the door open,’ when I’m filling up the car. I’ve heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world – maybe that’s something to study for my next fragrance!
~Kate Moss

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
~Albert Camus

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
~Gary Ross

EndQuote:
Doors are going to open — doors you can’t even imagine exist.
~Julie Powell

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Exercise Prompt for 04/26:   fate

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The littlest door, the inner door,
I swing it wide. Now in my heart there is no more
To hide. The farthest door — the latch at last
Is lifted; see. I keep the little fortress fast.
~Mary Carolyn Davies

The entrance into this place I made to be, not by a door, but by a short ladder… when I was in, I lifted over after me; and so I was completely fenced in, and fortified… from all the world
~Robert Orben

I shut the door behind me. At once, I felt better. There is something fundamental in the desire to have a door to close, sealing out the rest of the world.
~Abby Geni

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I’m relatively available, but not to live with.
~Graham Norton

Add a little something special to the library in your home by making sure to incorporate a book that, when pulled, opens the door to a secret hidden room.
~Keith Wynn

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And what is it you guard with fastened doors? Have you peace… Have you remembrances… Have you beauty… Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master?
~Khalil Gibran

Shut the door. Not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the cozyness.
~Mark Twain

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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
~Julia Cameron

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare and special human beings that uses the fullness of their talents for the highest and the very best.
~Robin S Sharma

The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
~Paul Strand

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
~Jim Rohn

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Posted From The Grove

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
~Aung San Suu Kyi

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
~Marco Rubio

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
~Charles Dickens

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
~Lance Morrow

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We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn’t know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that’s open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents’.
~Mitch McConnell

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
~Timothy Murphy

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.
~Tahar Ben Jelloun

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.
~Paul Martin

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.
~Mitt Romney

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Thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.
~Joanna Russ

My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we’ve been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, ‘The Russians are coming.’ So we screened ‘Red Dawn’ and ‘Top Gun.’
~Olivia Thirlby

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The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family – my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid – to live in the apartment building.
~Tom Morello

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I’m cool with that.
~Mos Def

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
~Ida B Wells

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

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door?
~Tyra Banks

All the negro asks is that the door which rewards industry, thrift, intelligence and character be left as wide open for him as for the foreigner who constantly comes to our country. More than this he has no right to request. Less than this a republic has no right to withhold.
~Jesse Jackson

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~Quadrum Producciones:  Doorway Shot   (1:56)   classic doorway scenes from the movies

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~flydubai:  Your Doorway to Zanzibar   (1:16)   a one minute get-away

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Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked – nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch.
~Rasheed Ogunlaru

If Opportunity has shut One Door,
Resolve can open Thrice a Hundred More.
~Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy

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Pull and Push are inscribed on the doors of the Temple of Knowledge.
~James Lendall Basford

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
~Antonio Porchia

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going.
~Rihanna

The doors will be opened to those who are bold enough to knock.
~Tony Gaskins

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
~Kyle Chandler

If opportunity doesn’t knock… build a door.
~Milton Berle

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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
~Confucius

You suppose that you are the lock on the door. But you are the key that opens it.
~Rumi

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You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.
~Bruno Mars

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
~Omar Epps

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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When Debt stands at the door
Opportunity does not get a chance to knock.
~Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Where one door shuts another opens.
~Miguel de Cervantes

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.
~Bob Marley

When one door closes another opens, but all too often there is a long hallway in between.
~Rick Jarow

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell

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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
~Steve Wozniak

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
~Paul Ryan

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
~Bobby Flay

At Current, television is all we do – that’s our business. We don’t have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don’t have environmental cases against us, we don’t have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
~Keith Olbermann

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply. If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
~Orison Swett Marden

To decide the lives we live, we have to choose the doors we open and close each day.
~Yoyo Scolari

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§ VIDEO:

There are a lot of actresses out there who are the girl next door. I relate more to characters who have an edge.
~Eliza Dushku

I’ve had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I’ve been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I’m the grandmother next door.
~Jacki Weaver

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It’s hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.
~Melissa Joan Hart

I was not beautiful. When I went to Hollywood the beauties were people like Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr, Loretta Young. They were incredibly glamorous. I was always the girl next door.
~Ingrid Bergman

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
~Joan Crawford

The girl next door isn’t necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don’t feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.
~Emmanuelle Chirqui

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I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there’s usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there’s six guys waiting for me.
~Kevin Pietersen

There’s such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
~Miranda Otto

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For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don’t want to stand out. You don’t want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I’m a product of nepotism. That’s how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
~Jeff Bridges

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
~Alton Brown

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I’ve had fans come and knock on my door. I’m usually polite, but I’m usually very direct and say, ‘It’s not cool that you come here uninvited.’
~Gary Allan

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
~Abel Ferrara

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
~Tennessee Williams

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It’s fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it’s not real. And it’s totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.
~Tom Felton

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Do you not know that close to your doors a great multitude of men and women, flesh of your flesh, live lives that are one agony from birth to death?
~Edward Bellamy

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
~Thoreau

He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man’s door,
Imbittering all his state.
~Horace

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~Stephen Murphy:  Closing Doors   (11:35)   the sadness of endings

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~Nurgül Odabaş Nash:  Love in the Doorway   (8:31)   two loves of a journalist

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~Omeleto:  Inbox  (7:56)   two sides of a door and a mail slot

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~Future Shorts:  The Open Doors   (11:58)   vivid characters, a sedate setting

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The door can never be closed for good to any player.
~Zinedine Zidane

He was a professional athlete and coach, a Ferrari who lived his life in the fast lane. She was a girl-next-door kind of girl, closer to a golf cart than a sports car.
~Emily March

You know, we – we start with a mentality that we’ll take a sports project if its good. And we’re certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don’t have to. They walk in the door.
~Jim Lampley

Like most people I can be lazy, so it’s nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I’m outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
~Viggo Mortensen

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
~Freddy Adu

I think it is that parents just don’t kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.
~Frank Shorter

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My dad told me when I went into high school, ‘It’s not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It’s what you do when you walk out.’ That’s when you’ve made a lasting impression.
~Jim Thome

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things – I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
~Will Estes

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
~George Washington Carver

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

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
~Burl Ives

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
~Victor Hugo

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don’t have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
~Jerry Lewis

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

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§ MUSIC:

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
~Richard Morris

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
~Brandon Boyd

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
~Layne Staley

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn’t have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.
~George Grove (Kingston Trio)

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves — and maybe a smile.
~Reba McEntire

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
~John Keats

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
~Eminem

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I’ve always loved music, but I never really played anything. After ‘Walk the Line’ and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
~Joaquin Phoenix

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I’ll pull that ’80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.
~Katy Perry

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
~Juliette Binoche

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My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn’t put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
~Jamie Oliver

I’m very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.
~Nick Clegg

I do believe at the end of the night when you’re with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.
~Liam Neeson

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
~B B King

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Then the door slides open before him and that instantaneous eternity is gone; he is in a new era… Before we have time to turn three times in our chairs, we shall be the grandparents and you will be smiling at our old-fashioned sentiments
~Christopher Morely

My grandfather’s family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.
~Giada De Laurentiis

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~Graham Greene

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
~Mario Batali

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
~Ethel Watts Mumford

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
~Sachin Tendulkar

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
~Jonathan Safran Foer

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~The Doors:
Strange Days   (3:09)   complete with strange people

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People Are Strange   (2:13)   point made in a more circumspect way

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The End (Full)   (11:45)   from Apocalypse Now, joyride carnage ends at 3:50

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~Rolling Stones:  Paint It Black • feat. Daenerys Targaryen   (3:50)   dragons, fire and destruction

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~Diana DeMuth:  The Doorway   (4:17)   women telling it

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~Dolly Parton:  2 Doors Down   (2:54)   full-on audience participation

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Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic:  Leave the Door Open   (4:08)   silk smooth

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~Sigerson:  Standing In The Doorway   (3:51)   typical Dylan weirdness, excellent in its way

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~Bucket:  In Your Doorway   (2:54)   alone

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~Paul McCartney/Wings: Let ‘Em In (5:14)    the classic exemplified

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The years that are fled knock at the door and enter…
I am as when my life began. The rainbow is in the sky again…
Oh! if I am deceived, let me be deceived still.
Let me live in the Elysium of those soft looks;
poison me with kisses, kill me with smiles
~Steinberg

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one’s own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
~May Sarton

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
~David Lynch

The door of the human heart, can only be opened from the inside.
~William Holman Hunt

I’m the type of woman you might say is too good. I’ll massage a man’s feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.
~Angie Stone

When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
~Ellen Hopkins

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I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
~Anna Kendrick

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
~Milo Ventimiglia

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
~Katharine Hepburn

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
~John Barrymore

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I kicked the door open, and I’m gonna hold my leg in there. I’m keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.
~Miranda Lambert

Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, ‘You do realise this is a gay club, don’t you lads?’ you get all excited because you think, ‘Wow, he thought I was straight!’
~Graham Norton

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There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.
~Pablo Picasso

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn’t deter her.
~Loni Anderson

I’m not just a doormat. I’m not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it’s about trying to find some strength through that.
~Lucinda Williams

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I’m very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports… I like to cook – I’m like the girl next door.
~Marissa Miller

I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn’t want to live next door to me.
~Elizabeth Shue

Everybody always says that I’m the girl next door, which makes me think that y’all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
~Kelly Clarkson

I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I’m pretty much the girl next door.
~Eva Mendes

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If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.
~Taylor Swift

I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.
~Sally Kirkland

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She was not the sort of woman guys settle for. She was the one they lust after and strive for. She was the one who ruins other people’s relationships simply by existing, but she will always be surmounted as guys come to realize the virtues of the approachable girl next door. She was, in brief, too pretty to be trusted or had.
~Thomm Quackenbush

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
~George Edward Moore

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn’t even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn’t deserve.
~Janice Dickinson

Doors open because you’re beautiful, but I wouldn’t cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.
~Tia Carrere

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
~Clara Barton (battlefield nurse)

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I believe that in India, cold weather is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
~Mark Twain

Four-word horror stories:
Team building away day
Rail Replacement Bus Service
Tell us about yourself
We’re out of milk
Someone’s at the door
@SoVeryBritish

When the news reporter said Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea I just smiled. It’s like yes. That’s Britain for you. Tea solves everything.
@jslayeruk

Why, when all other life revels in the out-of-doors, should man seek out the poison-laden air and darkened confines of the house of drugs, and carry thence with him a package of spring medicine?
~Woods Hutchinson

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door.
~Rudyard Kipling

Doors open up for you when you work hard. Doors also open up for you when you walk with a limp and act gimpy.
~Jarod Kintz

Closed doors simply means God is protecting us from having not the best.
~Bo Sanchez

Doorman – a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.
~Dorothy Kilgallen

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

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
~Will Durst

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
~Dave Barry

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
~Prince Philip

I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.
~Emo Philips

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
~Elayne Boosler

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.
~Nancy Banks Smith

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.
~Edward Lear

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
~Alfred Hitchcock

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
~Rodney Dangerfield

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
~Anne Lamott

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It’s us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
~Sarah Zettel

Forget about being world famous, it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
~Doug Coupland

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.
~Mae West

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All doors open to courtesy.
~Thomas Fuller

Some doors are best left closed.
~George R R Martin

Big doors swing on little hinges.
~W Clement Stone

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
~Benjamin Franklin

The door to happiness opens outward.
~Soren Kierkegaard

Doors are for those who lack enemies.
~Suzanne Collins

If the door is locked, try the window.
~Lynn Caine

If there’s no door, then I’ll make one!
~Hiromu Arakawa

Behind each door we shake is a reality.
~Akiane Kramarik

The back door beckons to a prodigal son.
~Michael Davidow

Doors are for people with no imagination.
~Derek Landy

Weird doors open. People fall into things.
~David Sedaris

The door to the invisible must be visible.
~Rene Daumal

You unlock the door with the key of imagination.
~Rod Serling

A good door needs no lock, still it can’t be opened.
~Laozi

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
~Ogden Nash

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
~Horace

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
~Clarence Thomas

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
~Abraham Cowley

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.
~Rumi

Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
~Jennifer Yane

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
~Coco Chanel

As arranged and suggested by: wisesayings.com

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@Writers Platform

Playing it, some people have chosen cellar door as the most beautiful combination of sounds, with liquid consonants and soft vowels.
~Hal Borland

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
~Carl Sandburg

Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
~Jim Morrison

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison’s lyrics were like poetry… like that was a deep thought.
~Bruce McCulloch

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When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
~Ann Beattie

The one happiness is to shut one’s door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
~Eleanora Duse

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The two white lions of the library
Who guard by night and day the doors that lead
Into the house where beauty waits our need;
Who guard — and know not to what end, for whom —
All the world’s wisdom in a narrow room
~Mary Carolyn Davies

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
~Andrew Motion

I tell my students, it’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
~Chinua Achebe

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On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
~Josh McDowell

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
~Thomas S Monson

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Prewritten Prompt:   door

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Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
~Rebecca Solnit

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
~C S Lewis

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
~Hypatia

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
~Tom Stoppard

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who
Before us pass’d the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road
Which to discover we must travel too.
~Edward Fitzgerald

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
~Helen Keller

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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
~Bertrand Russell

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
~Charles de Lint

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Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That’s but a hint of what we’ll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be ‘at home’ in a way that defies description.
~Charles Stanley

O age that half believ’st thou half believ’st,
Half doubt’st the substance of thine own half doubt,
And, half perceiving that thou half perceiv’st,
Stand’st at thy temple door, heart in, head out!
~Edmond Manning

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.
~John Calvin

Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
~Walel Watson

Joy is such stuff as the hinges of Heaven’s doors are made of.
~Joseph Roux

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I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don’t believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
~Tina Turner

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
~Olusegun Obasanjo

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
~Jesus Christ

God enters by a private door into every individual.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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§ THE EXERCISE

Query #12

As being rich is an elevated station
and being poor a social suppuration
While hearts in love burst with brief elation
severed hearts endure, suffer separation

As adore is to adoration
and restore is to restoration
Unlabeld doors want investigation
your puzzle-tease, question or invitation

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away

see? a door in the leaves
a passage thru trees
to woodlands,
shunning towers
tall forests of people
bides a deer, a pet, my dear
and a beaver I’m gnawing to know

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timely ditty #12

Ambitious plunge power driven
Destination: reorientation
Sins of state come pre-forgiven
Halls of law, doors to decision
Wage wanton war, judged: craven

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timeless ditty #12

A finer place a better time
Dressed in nature, ageless, prime
State where man and nature rhyme
Sin of skin, licentious door to crime
Garden Lesson, the long hard climb

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anxious heart

please, empty pockets of deception
bin by the door at reception
to the class on thought’s conception
the wandering heart its predilictions
the birth of art its preconditions
preconception, a god’s tradition
titled: love with a broken heart

affected poor reject selection
rotting homeless, no defection
powers be that set direction
pad accounts without detection
write the rules to pass inspection
break the rules to win election
golden rule bridles bank not heart

appetite and desire’s repletion
nature stalled resource depletion
question’s birth early Grecian
there’s concern about deletion
end our time without completion
life unchecked lacked cohesion
He with art made man with he•art

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Quandries #12

Ornate comfort indoors versus
nourishing nature and chaos outdoors
Carve out a far out place to groove
or finding a wooded grove is good
Nurtured in a good place well behaved
else expelled fallen out of grace
Give destiny a decided shove,
or just willy-nilly fall in love
Fermenting words into ageless art
or merely marketing perfumed farts

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Headline Pg 2

Advances hit a wall
demanding debts in arrears
the door was there
invitingly open
then disappeared

Poverty a mere paucity
needs people who share
not just saying their prayers
but surrendering something
Neighbors Showing They Care

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re:de•fine

thought love the product of dream suppliers
meant engaging with liars and promise deniers
driving icy backroads on bad bald tires

the single exit a door to the cliff
how did this happen, wondering what-if
i insert ‘need’ for ‘love’, see if it fits

i learned and heard ‘need’ for ‘love’,
and yes indeed it did
need someone’s need who calls it love,
no siree, god forbid
then found knowing i was wanted
worth the price of wanting, underbid

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5s ‘n 7s

i walk the hypotenuse
shortest distance between points
no angles, nothing dangling
your door my destination
straight shot, no trianguling

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spring’s expectation
precipitation
quench of the season
drenching a dry land
door to good harvest
storm warning promise
more bluster than rain

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open up and talk
reveal your deepest secrets
door to a dog’s heart

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
~William Arthur Ward

A door that seems to stand open must be a man’s size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
~Flora Whittemore

If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
~Jon R Stone

The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.
~Author unknown

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If we do not regard as sacred our own joys and the joys of others, we open the door and let into life the ugliest attribute of the human race, which is cruelty
~Rebecca Wes

Weeds you do not want to grow in your garden, grow at your front door.
~Haitian proverb

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
~William Blake

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Don’t praise Yourself to People who May know the Folks next door to you.
~Arthur Guiterma

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He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
~Dutch proverb

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A door just opened on a street–
I, lost, was passing by–
An instant’s width of warmth disclosed
And wealth, and company.
~Emily Dickinson

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Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it’s very small.
~John Hickenlooper

I think we’re getting to the point where everyone’s getting fat and everyone’s getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can’t walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.
~Adam Carolla

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Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~Merry Browne

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
~Omar Khayyam

That door had a lot to say, people entered and people left but never the same!
~Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal. One’s individuality absolutely leaves one.
~Oscar Wilde

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.
~Jan Myrdal

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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
~James Hillman

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
~Keith Miller

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The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.
~Idries Shah

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~Havelock Ellis

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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
~William Shakespeare

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
~Christopher Morley

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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
~Garrett Hedlund

You might enter this story by the stage door.
~Munson Havens

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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
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