“After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.” TwoAbleThreeDoorsBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“I worked at car washes - two or three different car washes. I worked at McDonald's and Wendy's, I worked as a dishwasher and as a telemarketer in two or three different places. I sold windows door-to-door and never once sold a window.” TwoDifferentThreeDoorsCarWindowDifferent PlaceMcdonaldsWendyDishwashersCar Wash Author:Joseph Bruce
“Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door” HeartBookThreeMorningDoorsCollegeThousandAppreciateRiversCopiesClassroomThrillGood BookAprilGeorgiaDean Book:Hawaii: A Novel Source: Hawaii: A Novel
“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.” IfsWritingLooksMeanDoeIdeasSchoolFormCertainThreeHalfPlansDoorsPaintingExpressionModelsDrawsRemainsDrawingPainterInteriors Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.” MenFirstsTurnsThreeSidesCasesDoorsCarMovementHe ManJudgingBeatsMouthsWindowBlindPreparedManageSpotsDriversVehicleTrafficOne WordShoutingStranded Author:Jose Saramago
“As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.” IfsTwoLightMightThreeAsksRoomsDoorsHairBedFortuneHallsClothingsBrushesGood FortuneStrandsLurkingContestants Author:Kelly Link
“I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).” WritingThreeWishDoorsMonthsBoxesCustomersExtrasBrownWeekendSunnyThree MonthsBonusContainingChequesCardboard Boxes Author:Neil Gaiman
“A friend told me the longer you keep Romano cheese, the better it gets. So, I kept it three years. And this thing turned mean. Now and then I'd open the refrigerator door and throw it some food. I'd have to walk it now and then. And then it grew this one leg. And it's got this ugly fuzz all over it. And the dogs won't run with it.” YearsMeanRunningThreeWalksDoorsDogGrewUglyLegsOver ItThree YearsNow And ThenCheeseRefrigerators Author:Phyllis Diller
“[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.” PeopleHomeThreeHouseFourDoorsBirthChildbirthHome Birth Author:Joyce Maynard
“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!” LooksThreeVoiceBehindsDarknessFourDoorsFeetHeroAdultsTreatsTricksTallSecondsImaginaryHalloweenBarbariansConanTrick Or Treat Book:The World According to Dave Barry Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors.” IfsNightThreeHoursSleepDoorsLuckyBusyGet UpAddictAlcoholicsBipolarSlamming Doors Author:David Feherty
“Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."” ThinkingStillsBookHandsThreeFictionWonderMoralDoorsQuestioningMake You ThinkBack Doors Book:Nineteen Minutes Source: Nineteen Minutes
“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingYearsFirstsLittlesWantedJobsFilmThreeSidesChanceStruggleFourAliveDoorsGive MeScriptsPushingEditorsFour YearsNo MoneyStaying AliveBangingCameramanGive Me A Chance Author:George Lucas
“Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.” ChildrenRealityWantedThreeReadingImaginationDoorsActressesTalesFairyFairy TaleConformMy Imagination Author:Kate Atkinson
“When I moved to New York, I had nothing. And a friend of mine also had nothing. And he said, 'Hey, come with me to the Marriot Marquis. And if you go to the 30th floor, and you wait by this door, and you sneak in, you can get free food.' And I did that for three years. I was prepared if anyone said, 'Can we see your room key?' to be like, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Bob Marriot's nephew.' Um, so great, I'm glad to be here and have free food again. And I didn't have to sneak in!” IfsKnowsYearsSaidThreeWaitingRoomsDoorsNew YorkMinesKeysMovedPreparedGladWho I AmHeyDo You KnowThree YearsBobSneakNephewYour RoomSneak InFree Food Author:Santino Fontana
“I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.” ChildrenThreeStuffImpossibleDoorsClothesLunch Author:Julie Bowen
“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
“I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.” RunningFacesFallThreeStuffDoorsFeetFansHugeGrewEatingGrew UpFishesChairsPythonTrippingMontyStoogesThree StoogesTripping Over Author:Thomas Sadoski
“Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.” IfsFirstsTwoThreeWorryDoubtDoorsRegretThirdsMeetingsVillain Author:Suzy Kassem
“I like the way that Dexter mixed humor, dark humor and tragedy, in a way I don't think that I've seen another show do. To handle those tonal shifts with so much confidence. Normally, you can mix humor and dark humor, you can mix dark humor and tragedy, but to mix all three... There are just moments with Robin and Reuben, the next door neighbors, that are just funny.” ThinkingWayMomentsShowsThreeNextDarkDoorsTragedyNeighborHandleDark HumorRobinsNext Door Neighbors Author:Jane Espenson
“As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone, which was crafted around German unification, the free movement of peoples within Europe, particularly people from the new democracies of Eastern Europe, and, more broadly, it opened the door to globalization.” PeopleLooksFallThreeDemocracyDoorsMovementWallDevelopmentEuropeEasternGlobalizationBerlinEastern EuropeUnificationBerlin WallEurozoneFree Movement Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!” YearsChildrenShowsThreeFiveFourDoorsCastsDepartmentThree Years Author:Julie Bowen
“I doubted my creative spirit three years ago and God showed me a way to praise Him through song. It opened the door to a whole tapestry of images and concepts that were brand new for me and I continued on that path.” WayYearsWholeSpiritSongThreeCreativePathDoorsConceptsYears AgoPraiseBrandsThree YearsDoubtedBrand NewTapestryCreative Spirit Author:Jonathan Cain
“When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.” KnowsKindGuyGirlThreeMorningDoorsWalkingBandKnockingMacsGroove Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding." It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.” IfsThinkingTryingMayMightThreeHoursRoomsMorningFourDoorsMonthsPleasePromiseBedSixNotesSevenDearCardsHotelBottlesYellowSlipsArrangementsDictionaryDeckPadsStickyLinenPlaying CardsMoldingSherryThesaurusAngelou Author:Maya Angelou
“We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.” YearsWould BeJobsAmericaThreePresidentEconomyRecordsDoorsBlameFolksWeatherManagersShopsThree YearsCeoObama Economy Author:Mitch McConnell