Quotes About Opening

#1. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all it's sons away;They fly forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day.

Isaac Watts

#2. Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.

Kenny Marchant

#3. Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey ... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.

Chogyam Trungpa

#4. God is a great gatekeeper. I find Him opening and closing it before me, against my will and often without my consent.

Farzaneh Doosti

#5. What is it that you contain?
The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

Jeanette Winterson

#6. It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

Philip Sington

#8. Throughout the history of el Bulli, there have been many changes in its organisation or philosophy. This is another one of those moments. There will be risk, and freedom, and creativity. But there won't be opening hours, or reservations, or routines.

Ferran Adria

#9. For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to the pain that life brings, we can truly cure our pain and avoid our suffering. Then we can walk in the valley of love and experience the vast space within our heart.

Sebastian Pole

#10. The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. Develop a habit of being grateful and thankful for everything good in your life, and you'll find you are actually opening the door for more good to come into your life.

Idowu Koyenikan

#12. Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.

Henning Mankell

#13. Opening yourself up only caused trouble in the end.

Shana Norris

#14. The nature of Paganism is that of exploring, evolution, and opening up.

Gede Parma

#15. A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Federico Fellini

#16. Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit.

Hugh Black

#17. Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give them. I'm sort of opening curtains or blinds and all of a sudden they see it, they get it.

Paul Rankin

#18. Is anyone ever really the same after being pushed through an opening the size of a donut hole only to end up wearing a fez?

Dakota Cassidy

#19. He saw in that instant a life he could not conceive of opening before him, a hopeless abyss. Either way he was doomed: He did what was wrong, and condemned himself, or he did what was right, and remained a ghost.

Andrew Holleran

#20. True education is awakening a love for truth ... opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

David O. McKay

#21. A good quotation must be like a beautiful door opening to a beautiful place!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. That opening position in every negotiation. The one that said, out of the goodness of my heart I'm going to agree to rob you blind.

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

#23. I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

John Leguizamo

#24. Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

Hu Jintao

#25. A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

Josh Radnor

#26. I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

Andy Warhol

#27. It was the opposite of love, and yet it wasn't love I was opposed to but the murmurs that said, This is your chance, which seemed less like the promise of a door opening than the threat of one sealing shut.

Melissa Bank

#28. A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Victor Hugo

#29. She had a vague idea that "decadent" had something to do with not opening the curtains all day.

Terry Pratchett

#30. Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.

Pema Chodron

#31. What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.

Emily Dickinson

#32. On being invited to the Jaipur Festival, I was naturally nervous about attempting an opening address to such an elite gathering.

Amartya Sen

#33. When one is down due to trials on earth evil sees an opening to attack. You with God are more powerful than satan ~ every time.

Paula Dickerson

#34. Rumer Willis was having a great time at the opening of a club when her twin walked in, also known as her dad, Bruce Willis. How embarrassing for her, she's out with her friends and they're like, 'Umm, Rumer, I think your dad put something in my drink.'

Chelsea Handler

#35. Maybe it's about opening up your definition of family to include friends, too. Because friends are the family you choose.

Kim Holden

#36. I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Bruce Cockburn

#37. Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.

Chris Pavone

#38. Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#39. I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character

Oscar Zeta Acosta

#40. I do not wear a welcome mat on my chest just so people can walk all over it fumbling with the keys to the locks they keep building for the doors I keep opening hoping someone will see the rainforest growing in my living room.

Andrea Gibson

#41. But there was something so empty about the prospect of a Christmas Day without opening presents

Rachel Cohn

#42. Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

Georges St-Pierre

#43. I was also trying to control my mouth from opening and asking what was happening at the same time control my body from hurling itself in his arms.

Kristen Ashley

#44. I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.

Helen Garner

#45. It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#46. Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

Gallagher

#47. Maybe I am becoming a hermit,
opening the door for only
a few special animals?
Maybe my skull is too crowded
and it has no opening through which
to feed it soup?

Anne Sexton

#48. A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached ... [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz ... This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.

Tom Piazza

#49. My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

Katie Leclerc

#50. I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

Jenny Lewis

#51. One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

Edmar Mednis

#52. For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'

Richard Flanagan

#53. Love will require mutual trust, opening your hearts and lives to each other. It takes work to build a true relationship. The same is true of Yahweh.

Lynn Austin

#54. I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

Joseph Brodsky

#55. Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

Beverley Nichols

#56. Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.

Jeff Greenwald

#57. I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#58. She could suck a human's soul empty in fifteen seconds but opening jars was sometimes beyond her.

Shannon Drawe

#59. If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat.

Karen Abbott

#60. My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for at least six months, so I left school early to become the family breadwinner.

Brian Blessed

#61. A phase of my life was closing to-night, a
new one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being
accomplished.

Charlotte Bronte

#62. A few hours later, I am dressed in what will either be the most sensational or the deadliest costume in the opening ceremonies.

Suzanne Collins

#63. Are you fucking psychic?" He laughed. "I was thinking about opening up a hotline. 1-800-I-know-your-business.

Cambria Hebert

#64. Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Herbert Hoover

#65. Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#66. There are two ways of opening the eyes of people. The first is by way of preaching the Word of God and the second is prayer

Sunday Adelaja

#67. While seeing or hearing, touching or smelling; eating, moving about, or sleeping; breathing 9 or speaking, letting go or holding on, even opening or closing the eyes, they understand that these are only the movements of the senses among sense objects. 10

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#68. I had an eye-opening experience in Baghdad at the end of 2004 and I thought that the story of these guys who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world would be an interesting way to look at the war in a broader sense.

Mark Boal

#69. Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.

Edmar Mednis

#70. I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

Mick Jagger

#71. Christ, Richie thinks, opening a fresh beer for himself. it isn't bad enough It can be any damn monster It wants to be, and

Stephen King

#72. Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky.
But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Barbara Kingsolver

#73. In fact, crying means that you are opening yourself up to whatever you are feeling in that moment. And that often requires strength and courage.

Alexander Janzer

#74. The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Pete Townshend

#75. One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

Susan Cain

#76. There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.

Stephanie Zacharek

#77. I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

Alice Cooper

#78. You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.

John O'Donohue

#79. As the lifetime-long days passed I began to notice a profound cleansing taking place in myself as we were inmersed in the peaceful Pennsylvania farm valleys. The streams and cotton-clean clouds washed my soul and I felt myself opening up to the world.

Peter Jenkins

#80. The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.

Ken Wilber

#81. At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.

Sarah Dessen

#82. There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase' to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening.

Marcel Duchamp

#83. Though the use of humor is one of the best opening techniques, there is a danger in using it if it does not come naturally to you.

Joseph A. Grippo

#84. I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

Richard Eyre

#85. I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

Candice Olson

#86. My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Kenzaburo Oe

#87. The night before the Olympics opening ceremony, my son, who is eight years old, gets very excited and likes to put out a plate of cookies and some milk for Bob Costas.

David Letterman

#88. Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

William Cowper

#89. By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!

Elizabeth Janeway

#90. Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#91. I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.

Luke Bryan

#92. I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.

George Miller

#93. I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

Drew Barrymore

#94. What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

Bob Beauprez

#95. When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You're opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?"

"I'd do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been."

"Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.

Michael Marshall Smith

#96. Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.

Miuccia Prada

#97. I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

Anatoly Karpov

#98. If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

Gary Ross

#99. Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

Roy Wood

#100. 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