Top 82 Can Opener Quotes
#1. I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.
Patti Smith
#2. How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.
Woody Allen
#3. I like that Zarek. He quality people! He even gave me a can opener so I don't have to use my fangs. I like that. Metal is hard on the teeth. Pork and beans popsicle. Yummy! My favorite! (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance.
Libba Bray
#5. I always thought that my canine family tended to view me as the funny-looking two-legged dog who runs the can opener.
Roger Caras
#7. She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
Sharon Olds
#8. I have things to tell you, but I don't think there's any point. It's like you took a can opener and peeled the lid off my heart and leaped out the day Will died. Why are you so silent? Of all times to leave me alone.
Jenny B. Jones
#9. If you can't trust your can opener, then what? Is your wastebasket going to get you?
Garrison Keillor
#10. Oh my gosh! Somebody get a can opener! I've got a god stuck in my head!
Rick Riordan
#11. Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!
Rick Riordan
#12. I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.
Annie Dillard
#13. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.
Henry Miller
#14. People usually find a good place for stray dogs, or for the elderly when they can no longer go up stairs or use a can opener. Finding a good place for a kid seems like a much bigger challenge.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#16. If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
Alan Hirsch
#17. What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin
to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.
Henry Miller
#18. Georgia Dome was a pretty big eye opener that I had something kind of going in the right direction. It seemed like a movement, and I was greatly appreciative for the chants and the signs.
Bill Goldberg
#19. My new private flying job was a real eye opener.
K.C. Barnard
#20. Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
Dan Buettner
#21. When you're the opener, you're the guy getting the crowd warmed up. But when you're the headliner, you're the main dude. People come to see you, and you have to deliver. It's a cool position to be in.
Scotty McCreery
#22. If you service low-impact activities, therefore, you're taking away time you could be spending on higher-impact activities. It's a zero-sum game.
Cal Newport
#23. I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a bottle of beer pretty easily without it, but wine is always too much of a pain in the (rear) to open that up. So a corkscrew is probably the gadget that I can't live without.
Dave Matthews
#24. Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times.
April Mae Monterrosa
#25. A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road.
Yogi Berra
#29. In fifteen minutes most of the camp was there, including the Texan who, Lord save his soul forever, had brought along a bottle of bonded Kentucky Drain Opener.
Peter Hathaway Capstick
#30. When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.
J. Robbins
#31. Down the well, Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#32. Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.
John Grogan
#33. I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
Damian Marley
#34. It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.
Dr. Seuss
#35. Briar Greyson, in the bedroom, with the letter opener.
Kelley York
#36. If she dis her letter opener into her brandy, she can stab him in the neck. It will be a race to see whether he dies of the poison or the blood loss.
Kendare Blake
#37. I've been very supportive of the Islanders. I'm at every home opener.
Kevin Connolly
#38. I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
G-Eazy
#39. On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.
Susan Orlean
#40. Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot
#41. A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.
Garrison Keillor
#42. Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot of pressure.
Tristan Prettyman
#44. Kids are a lesson every day, and being married is a lesson every day, but I think having a boutique and running it with my husband and having our careers and raising children was something that was really an eye-opener all the time.
Lisa Rinna
#46. Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.
Paula Deen
#47. One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.
Tom Robbins
#48. When a blind man says, 'God is good,' this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.
Anthony Liccione
#49. Gaslight Goods. Let us be your light in the midst of life's darkness, the sunlight in your foggy day, the candle in your wind. This is Kite. How can I help you today?
I grimaced. That was their opener?
Chloe Neill
#50. The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.
Jeanette Winterson
#51. Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours.
W. Ian Thomas
#52. Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.
For they are the ones who hide the most sadness - .
A.R. Von
#53. Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
Mario Batali
#55. Garage door openers mysteriously not working are a clue to electromagnetic interference (EMI) issues.
Steven Magee
#56. But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#57. I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.
Sanjay Dutt
#58. The 9th key may be the door opener. Don't give up after trying the 8th. Keep doing it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.
Al Murray
#60. Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.
Andrew Ripp
#61. I dub thee Toadsticker," I said. "Slayer of miscreants, opener of packages, occasional carver of baked turkeys. Let all men hear, and know mild caution." I swear the steel flickered.
Frank Tuttle
#62. We [with David Cunningham] did do Top Of The Pops. It was an eye-opener. I mean, one of the things that was so interesting - I've talked about this a few times recently, and people can't believe it - they used to do this thing called tape switch with the Musicians Union.
David Toop
#63. Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.
Dick Dale
#65. Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#66. What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#67. I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.
Michael Phelps
#68. I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.
Bre Pettis
#69. It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.
Deborah Ann Woll
#70. My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
Frances O'Grady
#71. It doesn't seem like the season really gets under way until you have your home opener
Derek Jeter
#72. Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Terry Pratchett
#73. His place was not honored, as the true opener of the way; he was only another of the ten thousand cheering extras, a doggy rolling over and sitting up on command.
Stephen King
#74. I got a garage door opener. It can't close. Just open.
Steven Wright
#75. For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.
Darren Boyd
#76. Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game.
Roy Halladay
#77. Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things.
Geri Halliwell
#78. I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital ... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.
Travis Barker
#79. I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.
David Sedaris
#80. The opener is always very difficult every single year. It Really doesn't matter whom you play. The opener is difficult because you've got more time to prepare for one game than you do any game the rest of the year because you've got all spring, all summer to prepare for this opponent.
Dabo Swinney
#82. The things we hold inside, the nightmares we stifle, have far more power than the things we expose to the light of day.
Nalini Singh
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