“A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you're still dreaming but it's slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn't always say 'just wondering' when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go.” PeopleKnowsFeelsStillsRealReasonDreamUniverseThreeNextLostWishStarsSleepBehindsWonderHellDoorsAskingFingersAwakeThree TimesClicksClumsySlippingBouquets Author:e. e. cummings
“Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."” FeelsSpiritualChristSinPowerfulBehindsGenerationsDoorsMedicineCuresRepentanceThis GenerationOmissionPotency Author:Neil L. Andersen
“What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.” PeopleBehindsDoorsConcernClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Dolly Parton
“When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors on the stalls. It would actually look weird, if these women were hiding.” IfsLooksBehindsDoorsPrisonHidingShowersBathroomCurtainsTowelsShower Curtains Author:Laura Prepon
“Across the nation, thousands of people are lining up in hospital waiting rooms, out the doors, down the steps, around the corners, and behind the hedges, waiting for their inoculations. Here's another idea for avoiding the flu: DON'T stand outside in the cold for hours around lots of other people.” PeopleIdeasNationsWaitingHoursRoomsBehindsStepsDoorsColdCornersHospitalsAvoidingStanding OutFluWaiting RoomsLining Up Author:Jon Stewart
“What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!” NeedsShouldArtGamesBehindsDoorsFootballSpectatorsClosed DoorsBehind Closed DoorsBulgaria Author:Ivan Slavkov
“I was driving in Manhattan. There's traffic, nobody's moving... The guy behind me is honking just at me. He kept yelling at me. I decided that I'm gonna argue with this guy, but I'm gonna argue about something else. I'm not having his argument; I'm having mine. So, he's like, 'Go!' And I go, 'Well give me back my jacket!' And he stopped. I was like, 'Yeah, you got my jacket! Give it back! I said you could borrow it, not have it! You're stretching it out, you fat pig! Give it back, now!' He got back in his car, and he locked his doors.” GivingWellsSaidMovingGuyBehindsDoorsCarMinesArgumentDecidedGive MeYeahArguingDrivingFatsLockedPigsTrafficThis GuyJacketsManhattanStretchingYellingHonking Author:Louis C. K.
“If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.” IfsCountryHappensGoalBehindsHalfDoorsEconomicPopulationOur Country Author:Narendra Modi
“It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantStoriesBehindsFictionDoorsTraditionInventionRealisticFormalRealistic Fiction Author:Jess Walter
“We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.” IfsWayJesusBehindsStepsDoorsBuildingWalkingLibraryLunchDowntown Author:Peter Jacobson
“I don't think that there's a target audience at all. These stories were in circulation. The stories were told by men, told in the marketplace by men, but also behind doors by women, but there's no real record of this. It's likely they were told by women to children in their interior rooms. The story could be a negative story, they could be presented as a, "Watch out! Women will get round you, do things to you, weave you in their toils." It could be buried in it an old cautionary story about women and their wiles.” ThinkingMenChildrenRealStoriesRoomsBehindsWatchesAudienceRecordsDoorsNegativeRoundsTargetBuriedToilInteriorsMarketplaceCirculationTarget Audience Author:Marina Warner
“As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?” PastBehindsFictionDoorsMinesBlowBehind YouPreoccupationFiction WritersLeaving The Past Author:Dani Shapiro
“People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story.” PeopleNeedsStoriesHomeHappensBitsInterestBehindsDoorsAssumptionAnalogiesLife StoryClosed DoorsSecond ThoughtsBehind Closed Doors Author:Charlize Theron
“Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.” WayReasonBehindsDoorsGoodnessRadicalBad ThingsTransparencyClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Ray Dalio
“If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're in. If you just turn around and look at your office door, there's a door, and there's something behind it.” IfsWorldLooksImportantStoriesTurnsBehindsDoorsOfficeConceptsLayers Author:James Pearse Connelly
“Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.” PeopleKnowsHeartChildrenGivenRealizingBehindsDoorsCircumstancesCompassionateRaising ChildrenGraciousClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Candace Cameron
“When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough so they understand the real tradition behind this ancient practice and that it's not a stretching class. Guys come in and they're a little nervous. I tell them that when they cross the threshold of the door, they're crossing to a different dimension. They're moving from an externally-oriented reality to an internally-oriented one.” LittlesDifferentRealEnoughPhilosophyRealityMovingGuyBehindsClassTeachPracticeDoorsGroupsInformationStudentsYogaTraditionCrossesAncientNervousDimensionsIntroducingCrossingsStretchingThresholdOverloadDifferent Dimensions Author:James Fox
“There's a huge amount of footage of Julian [ Assange] online, but he's usually in presentation or defending mode, talking about his cause, or the revelations which Wikileaks have brought about. There's none of Assange relaxing or in private mode. There's none of the personality I tried to give him behind closed doors [in The Fifth Estate ].” GivingCausesBehindsTalkingDoorsHugePersonalityAmountRevelationsOnlineEstatesFifthPresentationClosed DoorsWikileaksBehind Closed DoorsAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.” PeopleMeanDoeCharacterGovernmentNationsBehindsDoorsLandWorstPlanetsLike YouTrumpOfficeHighestDignityCriminalsSuitsPresidentialRegimesDronesSuits YouRegime Change Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Magic is not so much something which you do occasionally behind closed doors or in the space behind your closed eyes, but a way of living your life — a way of approaching the world you move through and everything in it.” WorldWayEyeMovingSpaceBehindsDoorsMagicLive Your LifeClosed DoorsBehind Closed DoorsClosed Eyes Author:Phil Hine
“My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.” EyeKidsBehindsDoorsIdiotIndignity Author:Berkeley Breathed
“Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.” MenWantDifferentLanguageWhiteBehindsExistenceLeaderDoorsPositionDependsTablesWhite ManSubsidiesCrumbsDifferent Languages Author:Malcolm X
“Because Conor McGregor is so confident - he goes there 'I'll beat this, I will do that' - If I would be his coach I will tell him all the time, behind closed doors, how dangerous [Nate] Diaz is and how much of a war this fight will be and how painful, and long, and uncomfortable it would be, and to get prepared for the worst day of his life.” IfsLongWarWould BeFightingBehindsDoorsWorstDangerousBeatsPreparedPainfulCoachesUncomfortableClosed DoorsBehind Closed DoorsWorst Day Author:Georges St-Pierre
“There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.” BehindsWiseDoorsCrazyClosed DoorsCrazy ThingsBehind Closed Doors Author:Lil' Kim
“There is at the global level a very small number of actors who can meaningfully weigh in on global institutional design, who are able - through powerful governments and most effectively through the government of the United States - to exert substantial influence on international negotiations, which are routinely conducted behind closed doors.” StatesGovernmentAbleActorsLevelsUnitedPowerfulNumbersBehindsUnited StatesDoorsInfluenceDesignInternationalNegotiationClosed DoorsSmall NumbersBehind Closed DoorsPowerful Government Author:Thomas Pogge
“The difference between EAZY E the artist and Eric Wright the human being, was two separate worlds apart. Behind closed doors, Eazy-E was a real generous giver, A true philanthropist.In 1991, I remember when Eazy-E drove out to Fontana California to drop off $20,000 cash because my twin boys were having hernia problems & and slight medical issues because of being born premature. He stopped his meeting & drove to give me the cash for my twins operations.” WorldGivingHumansTwoRealProblemRememberArtistBornDifferencesHuman BeingsBehindsBoysIssuesDoorsGive MeMeetingsMedicalCaliforniaOperationsGenerousCashTwinsRemember WhenGiverEricPrematureClosed DoorsPhilanthropistBehind Closed DoorsWorlds ApartHerniasEazy E Author:Kokane
“I want to be the bridge. I embrace it. I don't mind being a leader. I don't mind opening the doors. I guess my prayer is that there will be other leaders behind me who will come in and do more than what I've done, and more than what I can do and that this serves as an opportunity to level the playing field in hip-hop. I just want to be able to say "Hey, there's way more going on in life than the club."” WayWantMindI CanDoneAbleOpportunityCan DoPrayerLevelsBehindsLeaderDoorsFieldsEmbraceHip HopClubsOpeningHeyHipsBridgesHopsPlaying FieldsBeing A LeaderMind Opening Author:LeCrae
“I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.” BehindsDoorsDiedClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Stephen Baldwin
“The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.” BigsHappensBehindsDoorsDramaQuietOrdinaryClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Joyce Maynard