Top 40 Doorstep Quotes

There’ll probably be moments in my life where it seems that people will want to camp out on my doorstep, and moments when no one wants to hire me and couldn’t be less interested. I’ve been around the circus, and it’ll come and go.

We operate in a world where you can have a package from Amazon arrive on your doorstep the same day; where Uber has a private driver at your front door within minutes; but when it comes to Congress, it takes three weeks for someone to get a form letter response to his or her questions.

Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I’ve no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they’d like to know more about Odin.

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

There’s this perception that there’s a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don’t buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody’s opening it.

It costs a lot of money to deliver newsprint. It’s so much easier to do it through the air, Internet, radio, television. The second easiest thing is to do it through the mail. But when you have to take something heavy and put it on someone’s doorstep, that costs a lot of money.

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.

It’s not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

When LeBron James shows up at your doorstep, you’re going to let him practice with your team if not join the team.

We’re not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

Like anyone from any party who has stood for election, I’ve often had the depressing experience of meeting an 18- or 19-year-old new voter on the doorstep and being told: ‘I’m not interested in voting’ or ‘none of this matters to me.’

The Tories are trying to lock the country into the old, dirty technologies that harm our communities and the people who are forced to live with disruption on their doorstep.

Theresa May has made a decision that we want our economic future to remain close to Europe: it’s the biggest single market in the world; it’s right on our doorstep.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? ‘We have been here.’

I was raised in the Pacific Islands, so I remember picking fruit every morning for breakfast or collecting the eggs from the chickens in the garden. It was a very simple life, but we had all of these fresh ingredients on our doorstep.

The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you’ll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra – you can cut off its head in the Germany of the ’30s and ’40s, but it’ll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

There is a risk women’s football becomes the most popular spectator sport that fans tune into every four years but are not interested in parting with their money to watch the same players on their doorstep.

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn’t Colin Farrell – he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

Mormonism is not historic Christianity. When people say, ‘Well, Mormons and Christians all believe the same things,’ my response is, ‘If that’s true, why are they always on my front doorstep trying to convert me?’

The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The thing I love about Norwegian cities is that you often have nature right at your doorstep – you don’t need to go that far. That makes it a lot easier to just get out.

When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people’s stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!

MPs are only elected thanks to the help of ordinary members – activists on the ground who traipse the streets, post leaflets and engage in millions of doorstep conversations, come rain or shine and without pay.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I’d just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It’s good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn’t just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

I have very fond memories of the ’80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

I love Carly Fiorina’s fire; she’s feisty as heck. She really seems to fearlessly take the fight right to the doorstep of the Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

My mother was known as the ‘bird lady’ of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.

Gray hats are the ones who think they’re doing good, but they’re not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep – not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

We are open to the world; the world is at our doorstep. It washes in, not just through the windows, but we are immersed in it completely – through the Internet, through the media, through people traveling, coming here, as well as Singaporeans going abroad.

The E.U. is terrified that we might become a competitor on its doorstep and that is exactly what we should be.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn’t work out.

All I can think is that the owners of Chick-Fil-A have decided they have had enough, that they’re just going to focus on selling chicken sandwiches to as many people as they can, and they figure that keeping their views about marriage to themselves is better than having a bunch of angry activists on your doorstep.

People understand we’re on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

We’ve got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that’s what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there’s a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.