Opening Statement Quotes

#1. This is a bad land for gods, said Shadow. As an opening statement it wasn't Friends, Romans, countrymen, but it would do.

Neil Gaiman

#2. I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

Ronald Reagan

#3. An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

Johnnie Cochran

#4. This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball, because the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have my opening statement..sit ubu sit. Good dog.

Seth MacFarlane

#5. Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Ronald Reagan

#6. You're gonna notice me when I come in. I'm gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you're gonna remember that.

Busta Rhymes

#7. I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. Sometimes you sacrifice legibility to increase impact.

Herb Lubalin

#9. I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

Edward Bond

#10. 99.9 per cent of the matter of all the human bodies on the planet, all 6 billion of them, takes up no more space than a single sugar cube. The rest is made up of empty space and drifts of electrons, nothing more.

Olivia Laing

#11. Savannah is so beautiful that the dead never truly depart.

James Caskey

#12. The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#13. The impulse to investigate can only be set free if you stop pretending to know answers that you don't. Because the incentives to pretend are so strong, this may require some bravery on your part.

Steven D. Levitt

#14. Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

Lady Hester Stanhope

#15. Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Khalil Gibran

#16. Written in the histories of the world are the laws of man, and the wars fought to defend those laws.

Another war also exists, written in the histories of time.

A war fought, to defend the soul's of man...

K.L. Burrell