“When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.” TwoHomeDoorsNeededGunLaysHookLoaded Book:Little House in the Big Woods Source: Little House in the Big Woods
“In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.” HomeDoorsNeededAncientWheelsVehicleBurnedBridesTokens Book:Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Source: Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
“When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.” PeopleNaturalMillionsFocusDoorsIndustryNeededGasKnockingNatural Gas Author:Josh Fox
“We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.” MindMomentsInterestTakenDoorsExampleTaughtNeededDegreesStandardsEncouragementInspiredCriticalCritical MomentsOpened Doors Author:David McCullough
“I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.” TryingLooksMadeMightFallSidesWalksDoorsWindMomNeededShotsBuiltGoldMadnessGlassesMy MomTinyHotelPotTrappedTrapsWhiskeyTubesTinBiscuitsRampLeprechaunLegosPot Of GoldShot Glass Author:Alex Hirsch
“It's not like you're closing the old doors and that investigators working away in a laboratories on a unique hypothesis are no longer needed. My gosh, they are indeed. But this becomes a real engine for hypothesis generation and even for proof if you have interventions that you can carry out in this kind of large scale and conduct them in a rigorous way. I guess, yeah, it's different. But it's different in a good way.” IfsWayKindDifferentRealGenerationsDoorsLike YouNeededUniqueYeahProofScalesEnginesHypothesisInterventionClosingLaboratoryGood WayLarge ScaleInvestigators Author:Francis Collins
“I just think of Fannie Lou Hamer, because even though she didn't know my name Ms. Hamer was thinking of me. I just want to do a good job, because I want her to look over that edge of heaven and say, "That's why I did it. That's why. I knew we had the capacity and the talent to be everything America says we can't be. All we needed was an open door."” ThinkingKnowsWantLooksJobsAmericaNamesHeavenDoorsTalentNeededCapacityEdgesGood Job Author:Leah D. Daughtry
“When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.” WayTryingSpeakFeltNaturalHappenedDoorsStageNeededAreasMy WayFulfillingNatural ThingsBay AreaNyu Author:Mahershala Ali
“Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.” MenYearsKindDoeStillsTodayGuyCultureDoorsFootballRevolutionNeededOfficeHundredYears AgoBunchFiftyCultMasculinityFrontiersExaltedManlyIndustrial Revolution Author:Steve Almond
“In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't care to "make-up" his answer, he said exactly the same thing [that we needed to clean up the dirt of the Church]. He was the brave one who helped so many open this door. So, I want to remember him because sometimes we forget about this hidden works that were the foundations for "taking the lid off the pot."” WantSaidSometimesCareRememberChurchAnswersForgetKnowingDoorsStupidNeededMassFoundationBraveCleanDespiteCandidatesPotDirtPopeBrave One Author:Pope Francis