“Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.” PeopleMadeTwoJobsWaitingDifficultWorkChanceDoorsMiddleMinutesTypeMonthsBirthProveSixLike MeExpertsSix MonthsInitialsHurryingDifficult QuestionsBlousesLooking For A Job Book:Mama Day: A Novel Source: Mama Day: A Novel
“I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.” ThinkingRealityWhiteClassViolenceDoorsMiddleGrewGrew UpConsequenceViolentAtmosphereMiddle ClassSurvivedShatteredEarly LifeConsequences Of Violence Author:Eve Ensler
“The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.” WayWantAmericaCultureClassDoorsMiddleMissingAnxietyAmbitionLowsTheaterEntertainmentMiddle ClassRitualCaptureContestsPolishedVulgarityRespectabilityMiss AmericaHigh Class Author:Gerald Early
“When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.” ThinkingShouldChildrenMotherNightLaughingDoorsMiddleBedSickWake UpMiddle Of The NightImpeccable Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“All my shows is about a party. We party from the door then we get into the gig, get back to the middle then we gonna party at the end. It's all a good time.” EndsShowsPartyDoorsMiddleGood TimesGet BackGigs Author:Kurupt
“One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.” SaidWholeHomeHumorFunnyHellDoorsMiddleCarBuildingKeysOne DayRanApartmentHighwaysPolicemenDrivewayCar Keys Author:Steven Wright
“The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.” IfsChildrenMatterSpeakCommunityMemoriesExistenceClassDoorsMiddleAdultsConcernMiddle ClassChicagoPotatoesStarvingPoignantNiceties Author:Paul Samuelson
“What makes horror movies work is the idea that "oh my God, what would I do if I were in that situation? How would I get out of that alive? What would I do if I saw the door to my closet creaking open in the middle of the night and a doll on a tricycle comes riding out?"” IfsIdeasNightSituationSawsAliveDoorsMiddleHorrorRidingClosetsDollsMiddle Of The NightTricycles Author:James Wan
“It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels.” RunningYoungNightBoysDoorsMiddleSittingRedPhonesBreathingCuteHotelStairsPhone CallsMiddle Of The Night Author:Cameron Diaz
“In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want him to die in a fiery accident. That's a quote from someone else, but there's something about American optimism, that feeling you can do anything if you're at least middle class in America. If I can have a writing career, anyone can. There's nothing special about me.” IfsWantWritingI CanFeelingsAmericaDiesNextCan DoClassCareersDoorsMiddleSpecialOptimismEnglandAccidentsNeighborMiddle ClassFieryWant HimRolls RoyceNext Door Neighbors Author:David Sedaris
“I'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays for me. I particularly like it when they pay for dinner or whatever, because I've pretty much done the opposite, but for the exception of James [Taylor], where we split everything down the middle. I've been the larger money earner in practically all of my relationships. There's equality and there are positive differences, which are complimentary.” MenLittlesDoneDifferencesPayDoorsMiddleHe ManOppositesDinnerExceptionSplitsOld Fashioned Author:Carly Simon
“I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.” IdeasMatterNextWhiteClassTeachDoorsMiddleColorSkinsUniversityExpectedChosenMiddle ClassNeighborhoodPeculiarEmbarrassingSonnetRenaissanceEthnicityYaleSkin ColorYale University Author:Richard Rodriguez