Top 35 Doorway Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Doorway Quotes from famous people such as Robert Crais, Katherine Dunn, Josh McDowell, David Lynch, Howard Carter, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.
Robert Crais
Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
Katherine Dunn
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Josh McDowell
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
David Lynch
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
Howard Carter
Having children was a revelation – it’s like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.
Andrew Lincoln
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Staley
There’s a part of ‘Twin Peaks’ that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.
Mark Frost
After River was born, I remember being in the bedroom by myself, overwhelmed because he wasn’t latching well, and I yelled, ‘Dave, I need help! Can you get in here?’ Suddenly my husband, my mom, and my in-laws were all in the doorway. I just melted into tears. It really does take a village.
Daniela Ruah
I think ‘Gasland’ is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.
Josh Fox
Radio was always a doorway to something for me growing up.
Edith Bowman
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. White
With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.
Howard Carter
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.
Douglas Adams
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we’re assailed by the most delicious scent – jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
Alan Rickman
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
B. B. King
Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line – to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.
Donald Hall
Art is a hidden doorway that can change people’s emotions.
Akiane Kramarik
Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window – that is at once interesting.
Billy Wilder
Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don’t have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it’s kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I’m such a transcendental thinker, it’s always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It’s like going through a different doorway each time.
B.o.B
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
Audrey Hepburn
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
Daisaku Ikeda
Most people haven’t figured out when you are of service to other people outside of just yourself, the doorway for opportunity and blessings come in a very very different way.
Malik Yoba
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don’t change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that’s it!
Itzhak Perlman
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Thomas S. Monson
For me, there is a basic recognition of horror as the most open doorway where the intersection of philosophical and religious ideas can come tighter.
Scott Derrickson
In New York, as long as you’re not peeing in someone’s doorway, everyone thinks you’re a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.
Casey Affleck
Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.
Howard Carter
Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they’re going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.
Bryce Dessner
Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they’re female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that’s leaving their house.
Dylan Moran
As a boy I stood at the doorway of our hiding place in Budapest and watched Russian troops fight house by house to liberate the city and therefore rescue us from certain death.
Frank Lowy
I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent.

I don’t know if I’d want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it’s exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn’t come through a doorway off of a stairwell.
Dennis Quaid
After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.
Howard Carter
So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.
Terrance Hayes
I’m attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That’s my own reality, so it’s a doorway into a world for me.
Ryan Gosling