Heavens Opening Quotes

#1. If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

Elizabeth Lesser

#2. To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die.

Salman Rushdie

#3. What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.

Sam Hamill

#4. I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

Camille Paglia

#5. Money is the last taboo. People will talk about their sex lives before they discuss their finances.

Marvin H. McIntyre

#6. I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.

Frank Warren

#7. I liked being inside the head of someone who reveals himself unknowingly while he still thinks most people find him sympathetic. DG:

Herman Koch

#8. What property is left to dreamers when every idea has been tamed and conquered? What about the poet who dreams of embracing the night sky? It's utterly impossible. And yet the thought of it sparks song and dance, poetry and philosophy.

Roshani Chokshi

#9. The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the potential for opening new vistas in science and medicine

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#10. Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking ... asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

Edward De Bono

#11. I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

El Anatsui

#12. The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Edward Abbey

#13. You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.

Billy Joel

#14. It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.

Sean Parker

#15. Life is filled with trapdoors.

Brad Meltzer

#16. I looked up at this train car full of strangers, and my heart soared. In New Hampshire, I'd always felt like a goat among sheep; until I got to New York it had never occurred to me that there could be a place filled with other goats.

Sarah Silverman

#17. Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

Li Shan

#18. Poets are born knowing the language of angels.

Madeleine L'Engle

#19. We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.

Dante Alighieri