“I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.” IfsMenStillsSoundDoorsDisappearPoliteOld FashionedChivalry Author:Betty White
“On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.” SoundDoorsHarshThunderHingesRecoilParadise Lost Book 2GrateImpetuous Author:John Milton
“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.” WritingWholeHouseSoundVoiceBehindsNiceWrittenDoorsWallWhole LifeLiftsApartmentDetachedClosed DoorsBehind Closed DoorsVilla Book:Writing Home Source: Writing Home
“My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.” LongFeelingsPastSpiritLanguageSoundMemoriesDoorsQuietMusic IsMy FriendsFingersDepthDearGentleStringsMelodyJoyfulStrainBreezeRecollectionDepartureQuiverDear OnesCreating Beauty Author:Khalil Gibran
“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sends forth to you an earnest appeal. Open your doors to the missionaries. Open your minds to the words of God. Open your hearts, even your very souls, to the sound of that still, small voice which testifies of truth.” MindHeartStillsSoulJesusSoundVoiceChristChurchDoorsJesus ChristSaintAppealsLatterWord Of GodEarnestOpen Your HeartLatter DaysSmall VoiceLatter Day Saints Author:Thomas S. Monson
“Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.” ChildrenStillsNightSoundSilenceDoorsSubjectsSummerSticksPhotographLandscapeSnapsGarageMothsSummer Nights Author:Robert Adams
“But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.” DifferentMatterReadingSoundCasesImagineDoorsHavensTvsDirectorsUnderstoodCinemaPlatesSpoonsScenery Author:Daniel Pennac
“Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out of town at all. Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home. ... Fear grows poor because it watches others gain wealth but cannot enter the fray; fear grows sick because it eats away at heath even as it fears its diminishment; fear grows old watching others live in ways that seem to threaten-but in reality only enhance-life.” WayLooksStillsEndsHomeHandsRealitySeemsGrowsFearSoundWealthPoorWatchesDoorsLateGainsCrossesSickTownsRefuseOpeningNecksComing HomeLeapGoing OutPhantomsFray Author:Gina Barreca
“The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever. Pause, my soul, On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise Our human moans make on the shores of Time. O Thou that openest, and no man shuts; That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!” MenYearsHumansSoulHandsWaitingSoundWalksBreakDestinyDoorsStrangeFairsNoiseMy SoulTheeGatesShoreFloodPausesPettyDrowningPortalIrrevocableBlindfoldsFlood Likes Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“"Ladies and Gentlemen, we're about to begin boarding. If we could ask for your cooperation, please stay seated until you row has been called." ... That's what they say - but somehow, by the time it comes out of the speaker, it sounds like, "Everybody up and rush the door! Everybody up and try to squeeze your big fat butts in the small gate door area! Immediately! ... Do whatever you have to do to get on board. This is the last helicopter out of Vietnam!"” IfsTryingHas BeensBigsFunnyLastsAsksSoundComedyDoorsPleaseAreasFatsBoardsGentlemanGatesCooperationVietnamSpeakersHelicoptersLadies And GentlemenPlease Stay Author:Brian Regan
“The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.” FirstsSoundPrayerSecretDoorsHeardBlessingRainIncreaseMinistersAbundanceClosetsRevivalRevival PrayerHarbinger Author:Andy Murray