Top 100 Quotes About Opening Up
#1. I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required way, but something that is always opening up in front of us with the people me meet and the things we do, becoming more meaningful along the way.
Phil Mitchell
#2. I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.
Steven Spielberg
#3. I do an opening, and then I go up to the high balcony in the back and watch the bulk of the play, but then I have to leave my seat about seven to 10 minutes before the end of that final big scene ... and it's a bummer.
Will Oldham
#4. A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!
Chino Moreno
#5. My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
Gaspar Noe
#6. You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.
Future
#7. The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.
Jean-Francois Beauchemin
#8. All great discoveries are made by opening up the changing room door
Josh Stern
#9. Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.
Gene Simmons
#10. I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.
Kanye West
#11. A lot of times we set ourselves up to fail. It's interesting. A lot of times the resolutions we choose are the ones, like you said in the opening, we keep breaking over and over again. Sometimes it reflects parts of ourselves that we really need to accept instead of trying to change.
Cheryl Richardson
#12. There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
Yanni
#14. I've changed from my gorgeous yellow dress into my comfy Victoria's Secret pink. Some secret, it's just sweatpants and a hoodie. The hoodie's up with the strings cinched so tight there's only a small opening to see out of and pour wine into.
Victoria Van Tiem
#15. And she had the magic I had never come across all my life. A minute with her messed up my mind and heart in a way that all the theories of right and wrong didn't matter anymore. All of a sudden opening my arms to the storm seemed a better choice, than dancing under the rainbows.
Akshay Vasu
#16. Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.
Norman Cousins
#17. As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.
Jeff Daniels
#18. I was playing a gig in Greece in September 2003 and this guy walks up to me and says, 'Hey Tiesto I just heard you play; you're amazing. I want you to play at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.' I looked at him, like, 'Sure pal!'
Tiesto
#19. I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Francis Ford Coppola
#20. Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine.
Lizz Wright
#22. Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.
Robert Biswas-Diener
#23. I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
Dennis Kucinich
#24. The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.
Albert Einstein
#25. The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#26. I'm fascinated by lobotomies, the idea of opening up the brain and snipping around a bit and then closing it up again, like fixing a car or something. And the person wakes up and is a little stupid but stupid in a happy, untroubled way.
Peter Cameron
#27. To go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is so ineffably pure that it makes me gasp, and I feel a black and sinful object in the midst of all the spotlessness.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#28. Ask the first lion cub you meet, and it will tell you that, once you've tasted blood, there is no pulling up, and it's the same with opening telegrams.
P.G. Wodehouse
#29. We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.
Peter Criss
#30. Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.
Chogyam Trungpa
#31. Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?
Lionel Suggs
#32. 'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.
Jon Favreau
#33. The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.
Scott Westerfeld
#34. I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.
Anupam Kher
#35. Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
Tony Benn
#36. We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.
Marion Barry
#37. The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
Olympia Brown
#38. In order to establish a real teacher-student relationship it is necessary for us to give up all our preconceptions regarding that relationship and the condition of opening and surrender. Surrender means opening oneself completely, trying to get beyond fascination and expectation.
Chogyam Trungpa
#39. Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.
Hillary Clinton
#40. I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
Rachel Boston
#41. What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?
Debbie Ford
#42. In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.
Dave Barry
#43. Sometimes it's best to start moving in the direction you think God may want you to go, and then trust Him to lead you - closing doors He doesn't want you to go through and opening up others.
Billy Graham
#44. In the fall of 1887, Ed Curtis and his father arrived in the Puget Sound area, which was opening up to land opportunists after treaties had removed most of the Indian, and all of the British, claims to the region.
Timothy Egan
#45. 'Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening up doors.
Justin Chon
#46. There was an abyss opening up between them, cutting through whatever they'd shared on the train.
Marissa Meyer
#47. All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.
Paolo Giordano
#48. Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
Arnaud Desjardins
#49. The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn't love, but gratitude.
Kelly Moran
#50. My first glimpse of the Adelaide Oval was given through the Victor Richardson Gates and up the ramp, and there it spread out before me, a green oasis. It was like another world opening up.
Barry Nicholls
#51. Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#52. The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.
Tom Hooper
#53. Growing up in Singapore, I wasn't allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding.
Kevin Kwan
#54. We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
John D. MacDonald
#55. To say the least, it was inconsiderate of Diana's almost-dead husband to show up at her engagement party.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#56. Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
Muriel Barbery
#57. I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.
Martin Scorsese
#58. People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
Neil Sheehan
#59. Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strange light. 'Smeagol will swear on the Precious.'
Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. A rich and mature life involves opening up to a wider world. If we base our understanding of life only on what we personally experience, we are impoverished indeed.
Robert Strayer
#61. We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
John F. Lehman Jr.
#62. I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope
Andrew Flintoff
#63. I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.
Patrick Ness
#64. Walt's face lit up. "Sadie, Ptah was more than the craftsman god, right? Didn't they call him the God of Opening?"
"Um ... Possibly."
"I thought you taught us that. Or maybe it was Carter."
"Boring bit of information? Probably Carter.
Rick Riordan
#65. Just her and the pink switchblade. They were a good pair. Both incapable of opening up without cutting someone.
Maggie Stiefvater
#66. I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
#67. Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.
Richelle Mead
#68. Opening up the Capitol dome and giving the public a look at the inner workings of Congress - however messy they may be - certainly won't be pretty. But trust isn't earned by showing off only your Sunday best. The dirty laundry has to be aired, too.
Mike Quigley
#69. It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.
Dawn Fraser
#70. But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.
Fareed Zakaria
#71. Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.
Linwood Barclay
#72. I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather."
"Yeah."
"And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up.
Rachel Caine
#74. Embalming was like ... I don't know how to describe it. It was like playing with a giant doll, dressing it and bathing it and opening it up to see what was inside.
Dan Wells
#75. The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.
Frederick Lenz
#76. Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. "You left me," she repeated. Maybe it was only out of blind terror at the abyss opening up again around her, but she whispered, "I have no one left. No one.
Sarah J. Maas
#77. Sometimes change makes you sit up and pay attention, opening your eyes to so many new things, it's as if you'd been asleep for
Amber L. Johnson
#78. My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.
Jung Chang
#79. I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.
Girl Talk
#80. The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.
Tim O'Reilly
#81. Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you were wrong about stuff.
Matt Haig
#82. But I forgot to tell him," I said quietly, opening the door, "that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key."
"Oh?"
I shrugged. "He was the one who let me out.".
Sarah J. Maas
#83. Where readers of Murdoch can begin a new novel with a quiet confidence, opening a Burgess book is an exercise in anxiety: what the devil is he up to this time?
Thomas C. Foster
#84. When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you're opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.
Ed Helms
#85. I'm coming out with a wine ... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.
NeNe Leakes
#86. One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
Ken Robinson
#87. There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews.
Martin Shaw
#88. One of the things that's making ArcGIS come alive is apps. Apps are opening up the ArcGIS platform, making it available to everybody in your organization as well as to the public.
Jack Dangermond
#89. The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.
Joe Biden
#90. You don't have to walk me back. I live down the hall." She smiled up at him.
"My mama didn't raise me like that," Paul said, opening the door.
"Actually, your mama has some sense, and would say, 'She lives twenty feet away,' but suit yourself," Mrs. Olivier said.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#91. one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;
Niccolo Machiavelli
#92. I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.
Henry Winkler
#93. angels holding the seven trumpets are ready to sound off. But before the opening of the seventh seal; reapers are sent forth by our Blessed Hope to gather up His elect." Their upraised
Paul Bortolazzo
#94. The more we do this, the more the audio-drama format is opening up to us in new ways. So I think there's an experimental element, or at least an confidence in experimenting, that's running though our work now - and it wasn't there in the first season.
Glenn McQuaid
#95. I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.
Bill Richardson
#96. My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#97. The world is full of beautiful things but nevertheless very poor in beautiful moments and the opening-up of these things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.
Dashiell Hammett
#99. Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
#100. I felt a clot in my throat, something that wouldn't let language come ... And there is also a dream I have over and over again, of opening up my mouth and finding my tongue studded with broken glass, so every word is a wound.
Lauren Slater
