Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

- George MacDonald

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

- Natasha Lyonne

When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

- Mikaela Shiffrin

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

- Muhammad Ali

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

- Jackie DeShannon

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

- Ian Mcewan

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

- Gary Oldman

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

- Al Franken

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

- Emile M. Cioran

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

- Douglas Horton

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

- Billy Collins

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

- Arthur Wing Pinero

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

- Archibald Alexander

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

- Andrew Motion

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

- Allison Tolman

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

- Anna Deavere Smith