A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.


Percy Ross

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A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
PERCY ROSS
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
TOLEDO BLADE
Some doors suit a house better when never opened.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
Closed minds open the same doors, day after day. Like a prewritten play, it tells you what to say. I...
STEVE RAY COLLINS
It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are clo...
CRISS JAMI
Open all closed minds with the key to understanding.
JEFFREY G. DUARTE
It is significant and punishing to suffer a felony conviction. A lot of doors get closed. However, b...
CRAIG SILVERMAN
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had ...
JOEL OSTEEN
Closed doors present other opportunities!
E. L. MCDOWELL
Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove depe...
SUSAN C. YOUNG
He used hot water to open his doors, he got in, closed the doors and drove to work. When he got to w...
JAMES OLIVEIRA
I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
STEPHEN BALDWIN
It's all about bargaining behind closed doors.
JOANNA NATHAN
Behind closed doors, I'm a crafty person.
RAVEN-SYMONE
My eyes are open now and can never be closed.
JASMINE ANGELL
Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.
CHRIS CORNELL
There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.
HENRY FORD
Friendship is a door you will never need to knot on as you will always have a key.
WES ADAMSON
Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.
SU-MARI DIEDERICKS
I get the willies when I see closed doors.
JOSEPH HELLER
When you go behind closed doors, then anything goes.
TASSA DESALADA
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to...
SHANNON L. ALDER
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas...
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decisions behind closed doors, in our name, without our consent.
JOHN NICHOLS
We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.
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When Ossie wrote 'Purlie,' he knew it would open doors that were usually kept closed. Sheldon made i...
HARRISON WHITE
They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
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The Kalamazoo Promise has opened some doors that had been previously closed.
BARRY BLACKWELL
As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind clos...
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My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE
A closed fist cannot give. How can one give when the fist is closed? Yet, most people approach relat...
VAL UCHENDU
It's a constant struggle for them. They're ex-offenders. Doors are closed in their face.
DAVID RUSSELL
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
ANDRE GIDE
You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.
ROY AYERS
It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another ...
BILL FLORES
Our minds, much like our eyes, serve very little purpose closed.
ANTHONY MAGESTRO
No doors are closed. It's very early in the process, obviously but I'll just say in a general sense ...
NEIL ABBOTT
I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
ADAM GOLDBERG
Advertising agencies compete all the time, but they usually do it behind closed doors.
JOE CARLUCCI
He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.
MURRAY WALKER
It's a cabal over there. It's just a secret little society that does business behind closed doors.
BOB DURGIN
anxious to talk about race and related issues, but you can't have a dialogue on race behind closed d...
JACK KEMP
An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
BOB NELSON
A relationship is only as open as it's most closed partner
MARCUS GONZALES
You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in...
JONATHAN POWELL
We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to Am...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
A preconceived notion is like having tunnel vision. You miss a lot.
JIM GENOVESE
And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed
OSCAR WILDE
It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed ...
SIMON ARMITAGE
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
CRISS JAMI
For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open h...
IVO ANDRIć
The doors are closed but the night is young, Let me in to see a girl with thong!
SAMUNDRA SHRESTHA
They've closed all doors to finding out the truth. They don't want to see the evidence.
ALAN CAYETANO
They've closed all doors to finding out the truth. They don't want to see the evidence.
ALAN PETER CAYETANO
When chasing dreams be careful of what nightmares might be waiting for you behind closed doors.
GARY COE
~ If you keep the doors closed, the breeze will still blow, it just won't reach you.~
NICOLE STRANTZ
We try to open when most veterinary offices are closed.
ALICIA VALLE
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
STEPHEN KING
The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Living with a open mind is easier than living with a closed one.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica,...
MICHAEL FRANTI
Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.
MAXIMILLIAN DEGENEREZ
My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoye...
LIZZIE ANDREW BORDEN
When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES
We haven't closed our doors to other options. We've got stability, for now, and it gives us time to ...
RANDY SIMMONS
The days have gone where the NHS could act as a secret society. It cannot operate behind closed door...
ALAN MILBURN
The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open t...
ELLEN GOODMAN
They always called it an open case. It was never a closed case.
BILL JUAREZ
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
BILL COSBY
Every closed eye is not sleeping; and every open eye is not seeing.
UNKNOWN
Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed...
BROTHER ANDREW
This is the theatrical side of the budget process. The substance is still done behind closed doors.
BLAIR HORNER
It's never easy to leave one's home, especially when there are only closed doors ahead of you.
NADIA HASHIMI
Clearly, an open mind is a necessity when dealing with randomness. Popper believed that any idea of ...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, ...
JOHN NIVEN
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
BOB MARLEY
I think we had more streets closed than open for awhile.
GEORGE ESTRADA
A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
VICTOR HUGO
THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
The latch to the pen was up, but the door was closed, which was strange. Then, a couple of doors dow...
AMY NORMAN
The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
GERALD W. JOHNSON
The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
GERALD WHITE JOHNSON
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
MAXWELL MALTZ
Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its ru...
JAMES GLEICK
It's better to go behind closed doors and scream and even cry, rather than show your emotions to the...
BEVERLY ULBRICH
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinc...
FATEMA MERNISSI
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely m...
PAUL SCHRADER
Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a dif...
LIONEL SUGGS
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
BOB MARLEY
Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.
ROY H. WILLIAMS
VISUALIZE THE GOAL WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED AND ACHIEVE THE GOAL WITH YOUR EYES OPEN !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS
Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax mone...
LAURA MILLER
Behind closed doors I defended your integrity - then you decimated the ground upon which I stood to ...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds...
ALESSIA CARA
Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
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Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborh...
ELIF SHAFAK
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind close...
LAURA MILLER
Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the door...
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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have h...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect....
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than un...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a basta...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organize...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on e...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS
All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light s...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something af...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pai...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the i...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY