“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingHeartHomeKidsTalkingBreakWifeDoorsPaintingPleaseGive MeCookingPhonesMy WifeMealsEggsSurgeryHookCeilingsAnnoyedOpen HeartDealing With PeopleHeart Surgery Author:Ken Robinson
“Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.” FeelingsHopeBreakDoorsLuckyTicketsBreaking DownEmergenciesLotteryClutchSofasLottery Ticket Book:Hope In The Dark Source: Hope In The Dark
“Get your players on who can unlock the door and sooner or later they will break the door down” BreakPlayerDoorsSooner Or Later Author:Tim Sherwood
“Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.” IfsMenNightOpportunityBreakDoorsEvery ManBreaking DownHammersEver AfterOpportunity KnocksOpportunity Knocking Author:Finley Peter Dunne
“With the IoT, we're headed to a world where things aren't liable to break catastrophically - or at least, we'll have a hell of a heads' up. We're headed to a world where our doors unlock when they sense us nearby.” WorldBreakHellDoorsLiableHeads Up Author:Scott Weiss
“The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever. Pause, my soul, On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise Our human moans make on the shores of Time. O Thou that openest, and no man shuts; That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!” MenYearsHumansSoulHandsWaitingSoundWalksBreakDestinyDoorsStrangeFairsNoiseMy SoulTheeGatesShoreFloodPausesPettyDrowningPortalIrrevocableBlindfoldsFlood Likes Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.” IfsMenBreakDoorsRejoiceFlatteryMistressDelightedSlamRejectingNudge Author:Walter Wangerin
“Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.” IfsTryingMatterPlayGamesRoomsBreakDoorsHarderShouldersPedigree Author:Audra McDonald
“A great door opened by God for work, but while I'm doing the work, all Hell breaks loose. Oh! The idea that when God opens a door and He's with you, you don't have to fight. Oh, what a joke. That is a joke. In fact, if you don't feel the devil fighting against you, that's a bad sign.” IfsFeelsIdeasFactsFightingBreakHellDoorsJokesDevil Author:Jim Cymbala
“Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man that lives next door to me does for a living? He's a f*****g dentist.” PeopleKnowsMenDoeWholeEarthNextActorsBlackWhiteWalksBreakDoorsSingersComedianDecentNeighborhoodDo You KnowBlack PeopleRapperMaryWhite ManDentistMurphyNext Door NeighborsMary J Blige Author:Chris Rock
“Opportunity doesn't knock on my door, I go and break its door down.” OpportunityBreakDoors Author:Behdad Sami
“My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.” KnowsFirstsKidsJobsBreakDoorsRaisesSellingCardsHipsGrandmotherMy GrandmotherReplacementsChristmas Card Author:Emo Philips
“Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.” FirstsDoneWantedActorsBreakDoorsProductsDecidedHardestHardest ThingNepotism Author:Jeff Bridges
“I'm very much still connected to the way that I've always been perceived. And it happens. I'm not trying to play up anything, it is true. I've walked by numerous cars where they've locked the doors, I get into an elevator and someone moves out of the way. I've been to a place where some people think their children shouldn't play with my children. And that breaks my heart.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingHeartChildrenStillsPlayHappensMovingBreakDoorsCarMy HeartConnectedMy ChildrenLockedElevatorsBreaking My Heart Author:Andrew Hawkins
“The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare to venture there? She doubted. Jumping off a cliff was a flashy sort of courage, but a man would need true strength and valor to break through those padlocked doors. There were dark, uncharted spaces within her that had been built to house love, and even she was afraid to explore them. Terrified to learn just how vast and how achingly empty they truly were.” MenLoveNeedsHeartAgeHouseDarkSpaceRoomsBreakDoorsBuiltEmptyDareVentureTerrifiedJumpingChamberCliffsDoubtedValorBreak ThroughUnchartedFlashyJumping OffTrue StrengthJumping Off A Cliff Author:Tessa Dare
“I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantArtI CanShowsFilmFunBreakDoorsCallingCamerasPassionateBreatheWorking ItThreadShow MeBreaking DownLensesCameraman Author:Pam Grier
“At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.” PeopleThinkingMindWantedTurnsBreakDoorsIndustryAmbitionWaveInvitedBreaking DownTurn-onMy AmbitionTuition Author:Pam Grier
“I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.” CitiesBreakDoorsFeetSingingFinalsAnthemOklahomaRodeoNational AnthemOklahoma CitySinging The National Anthem Author:Reba McEntire