“I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?” WayBookEndsHomeKidsNextFantasyDoorsMagicLandSurpriseHatedWizardsPhantomsNarniaFantasy BooksPhantom TollboothYay Author:Lev Grossman
“The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before” ChildrenRunningLaughingDoorsLandWineRoseRunning AwayClosingMeadowsNevermore Author:Johnny Mercer
“The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.” LooksFactsSunDoorsLandRoseLakesDullness Book:The Professor's House Source: The Professor's House
“To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'” MenNextWhiteRaceDoorsLandConditionsDependsImportanceRelationCastsNeighborFriendlyWhere You AreSouthernUnderestimateWhite ManBucketsCultivatingForeign LandsNext Door Neighbors Book:The Booker T. Washington Reader Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead.” DoorsLandBedDesertDimensionsCracksSighGlaciersCupboards Author:Terence McKenna
“It's hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.” WayLooksHardCertainGirlNextDoorsLandSweetDoorstepSweet Girl Author:Melissa Joan Hart
“Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.” PeopleIfsKindSaidSometimesFacesCoursesNextHouseWonderFourDoorsLandSpecialMajorityWineDinnerSavingOccasionsClockIf I CouldCanadaFedsBreakfastBottlesThey SaidNext DayTentsBikingBottles Of WineSpecial Occasion Author:Pam Houston
“And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em.” PeopleWritingTryingMayPlayProblemForgetDealsDoorsLandFiguresAdultsCrisisScalesEmsTeensCeoSlamTweens Author:Lauren Myracle
“When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.” PeopleMeanDoeCharacterGovernmentNationsBehindsDoorsLandWorstPlanetsLike YouTrumpOfficeHighestDignityCriminalsSuitsPresidentialRegimesDronesSuits YouRegime Change Author:Louis Farrakhan
“He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of thousands of people to take to the open ocean in unseaworthy, overcrowded boats.... When the Haitians sense the door has been cracked open, they will once again prepare their rag-tag armada and set sail for the land of plenty - America.” PeopleHas BeensAmericaDoorsLandReturnOceanDecidedImmigrationBoatPlentySailCrackedRagsTag Author:Robert Byrd