Floodgates Open Quotes

#1. So the floodgates open, but nothing comes out. I'm feeling no relief in my head, just doubt. But my heart keeps telling me, 'hold your ground. You'll never learn a thing if you bail out now.

Missy Higgins

#2. I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.

Marisha Pessl

#3. The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open ...

Herman Melville

#4. The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

Frederick Lenz

#5. I am a strong believer in kissing
being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates
open for everything else.

Jennifer Lopez

#6. Velvet Jesus faced a shadow man to my left. Laser beams fired from his eyes.

David Wong

#7. I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

Ben Folds

#8. I hope our eyes gleam once all our crap clicks into place.

Lee Klein

#9. Training not only anchors my day but also allows me to tap into endless energy and intensity. Whether I was performing at Wrestlemania or shooting a 16 hour day on a movie set, training allows the floodgates to open. It carries me through the rest of the day and night.

Dwayne Johnson

#10. The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to increase taxes and that private, Christian, parochial and home-school families will be protected.

Johnny Giles

#11. Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

David Hockney

#12. It was as though in these last minutes together
when they had so much to say
they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.

Clive Barker

#13. I think life has simply decided to open its floodgates, trying to drown me in a whirlwind of twists and turns

Victoria Aveyard

#14. Lana looked at me like I'd just said I'd never watched Bring It On, or something.

Meg Cabot

#15. So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Philip Johnson

#16. One cannot enjoy a proper pity party and feel guilty about it at the same time. That was just a waste of a good pity party.

Melanie Shawn

#17. The USDA is tasked with managing and promoting agriculture - including the well-funded animal agriculture industry - so it's pulled into a tug-of-war every time the dietary guidelines are re-evaluated.

Michael Greger

#18. Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

Steve Hanke

#19. Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.

Trofim Lysenko

#20. The human heart is evil, absolutely. That is why self-discipline is a virtue. Once you open the floodgates of corruption, there's no stopping it.

B.C. Chase

#21. Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

Jason Statham

#22. But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

Jane Austen