“Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.” ChildrenActorsPerfectEnemyAudienceWifeDoorsStagePoetTerribleGreat ThingsKneesAweRemoveCurtainsFamiliarityStatesmenGreat ActorsImpunityAdmiringGreat PoetCreditorsScolded Book:Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)
“And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better. And once I was told it was time to get one, I thought: This is one of my favorite hobbies! And I'm going to pay someone to steal my hobby from me? That's a terrible idea!” ThinkingIdeasShowsGirlMy OwnPayKnowingDoorsFashionTerribleMy FavoriteStealingGossipNot KnowingHobbiesStylistFashion ShowPublicistsGossip GirlFavorite Hobby Author:Blake Lively
“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.” NeedsDoneWholeHappensPainLastsDesireFeltSecretAttentionDoorsMinutesStageTerribleRagePreparationAirplaneCrashThirstPreparingSuicidalHostilityAlleviateLast MinutePsychiatricParachutesVengeful Author:Tracy Thompson
“I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.” I CanBehindsDoorsTerribleHusbandFindingsMy HusbandScare Author:Katherine Heigl
“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLooksReadingDifficultLinesActingCareersCreativeWrittenDoorsTerribleScriptsFakeAgencyConfusedAmbitiousBe CreativeBreaking DownSmall PartsMemorizingHeadshots Author:Amy Sedaris
“During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something].” WritingYearsLittlesIdeasCoursesRoomsNumbersDoorsStreetsReadyMonthsTerribleWalkingCome UpChecksSweatShavingNapkins Author:Woody Allen
“I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.” ThinkingWayIdeasDoorsTerribleOfficeEngineersRight WayDeep Thought Author:Eric Schmidt
“People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.” PeopleMenPresidentWiseDoorsMinutesTerribleFuneralTerrible Things Author:Nancy Reagan
“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.” IfsGivingLittlesHouseDoorsTelevisionCollegeTerribleGive MeSellingTerritoryCablesCordsSubscription Author:Greg Kinnear
“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.” WantDoorsTerribleWhat You WantClosingAnniversaryPunctuation Book:Locked rooms and open doors Source: Locked rooms and open doors