64 Keyhole Quotes

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Famous Keyhole Quotes

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. — Judy Garland

Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe. — Stephen King

There is a window from one heart to another heart. — Rumi

The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries. — Lao Tzu

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart. — Stephen Stills

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! — Yann Martel

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man — Thomas Carlyle

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. — Omar Khayyam

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. — Carl Sandburg

Every wall is a door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open. — Harold Klemp

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. - Alan Bennett

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. — Alan Bennett

Short Keyhole Quotes

  • Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. — Mary McCarthy
  • He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes. — Black Elk
  • He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes. — Molly Ivins
  • Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye. — Gary K. Wolf
  • Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. — Arthur Koestler
  • The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell. — David Foster
  • Wild men, screaming through the keyholes. — David Lloyd George
  • The keyhole is my lens as a writer. — Nelson Rodrigues

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More Keyhole Quotes

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. — Billy Sunday

Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze. — Ethan Hawke

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. — Laurence Sterne

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through. — Arthur Miller

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into. — Lykke Li

I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections. — Anne Sexton

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. — Peter Ustinov

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room. — Mary McCarthy

Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind — Janet Frame

Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there. — Margot Asquith

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes. — Billy Wilder

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer. — Benjamin Percy

One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat. — Jerry Garcia

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable. — Sophie Swetchine

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints. — Hunter S. Thompson

Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in them that makes a good-natured noise like laughter through the keyhole of the reader's mind. — Corra May Harris

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world. — Cornelia Funke

No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole. — Baltasar Gracian

All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact. — Terence McKenna

I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium — Terence McKenna

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole. — Edgar Degas

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court. — George Bernard Shaw

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door. — Jesse Jackson

Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love." — Marianne Williamson

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole. — Honore de Balzac

You've got to get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the Lord Jesus, get inside the trunk, slam the lid down, whisper through the keyhole, 'Lord look, fill'r up with anything you want and you drive, it's up to you from now on.' — Paris Reidhead

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole. — Edgar Degas

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? — Holly Black

Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them. — Sloane Crosley

I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible. "Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children." "But this isn't yours," I pointed out. "My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.] — Rick Riordan

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