Opening Quotes

Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss. — Dennis Sharpe

Dentopedology is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I've been practicing it for years. — Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. — Hanna Rosin

Opening his arms he said quietly to her, Disappear here. — Jonathan Carroll

Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us. — Georgia Harkness

Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future. — Jurgen Moltmann

Consumers who are thinking of opening one of these no-limit credit cards may want to think how deeply their scores will be affected. — Craig Watts

Opening day
or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it. — Jim Bouton

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money. — Al Hirschfeld

Thinking sure could get a fellow in a lot of trouble. Almost as much as opening his big gabber and sticking his muddy foot in it. — Gillian Bronte Adams

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels. — Jack Kornfield

The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues. — Pawan Mishra

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car! — Prince

Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice. — Geneen Roth

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne! — George Croly

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space. — Robert Moss

'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

They shoot the white girl first. — Toni Morrison

Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world. — Chogyam Trungpa

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

No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word. — Thomas Dreier

Maximizing your favorable occasions is opening your favorable doors to growth and comfort. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest — Susanna Clarke

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra. — Pia Zadora

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes. — J.K. Rowling

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

When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks — Molly Harper

CUSTOMER:Will you be open so I can buy the new Harry Potter book?
BOOKSELLER: Yep, we're having a midnight opening.
CUSTOMER: Great! What time? — Jen Campbell

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. — Barbara Bush

You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good. — Scott Rudin

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower. — Amit Ray

Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times. — April Mae Monterrosa

If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation. — Erik Larson

Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary — Paul Hoffman

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. — J.K. Rowling

Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it. — Andre Holland

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act. — Jen Kirkman

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision. — Nelson Shanks

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

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty. — Albert Einstein

To not give your foe the respect that he is due gives him an opening in your defenses that he can exploit. — Terry Mancour

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors. — Debbie Macomber

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird. — Douglas Coupland

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. — William Golding

They say that the storm awaits the opening blossoms — Shigeyoshi Takagi

Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett's heart. It took three tries. — C.J. Box

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else. — Joshua Malina

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. — Uri Geller

Change isn't closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new. — Todd Stocker

At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland... — Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey

Love isn't blind, people are blind. Recognizing beauty is as simple as opening your eyes and realizing just what it is that stands before you. — Scott Hildreth

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool. — Anne Bishop

Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect. — Emanuel Lasker

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest. — Martin Heidegger

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

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads. — P.L. Travers

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get. — Tim Bevan

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new. — Shakti Gawain

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period. — George Clooney

I felt a crack in my defenses - a weak place where truth knifed and twisted and pried for an opening — Julianne Donaldson

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday. — James Patterson

Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books? — William Targ

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. — George Miller

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. — Daniel Woodrell

The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door. — Peter S. Beagle

When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier. — Behdad Sami

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun. — Rodney Dangerfield

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying. — Kevin Hart

Anna: Since my opening last year...I'm disgusting.
Larry: You're phenomenal. You're so clever. — Patrick Marber

It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house. — Mark Haddon

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper. — Michael Cox

Why was he opening the doors to my vanity? I kept my tampons down there! He could see them! They were right at the front for easy accessibility! — Kristen Ashley

There were spells on opening doors and closing them, spells to ward your door, and even one to discourage Jehovah's Witnesses from your door, — Juliet Dark

If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them! — Marshall Goldsmith

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love. — Yann Martel

He glared at me as if I were solely responsible for the food shortage not only at the opening, but in several third world countries on top of it. — Nicole Castle

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green. — Adam Ant

Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job. — Elizabeth Warren

Sam LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch. — Rachel Gibson

I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out. — Morgan Freeman

You look like shit." Jason smiled, without opening his eyes.
"You sweet-talker. — Laurell K. Hamilton

It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. — Pema Chodron

Several of the dusty Griever pods were opening, their top halves lifting upward on hinges like the lids of coffins. — James Dashner

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of. — George Clooney

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles. — Vincent Canby

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. — Kurt Vonnegut

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb. — Rod Steiger

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. — Margaret Atwood

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up. — David Frost

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. — Charlotte Bronte

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. — Henry A. Kissinger

opening arguments, — Paul Alexander

Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much? — Ian MacKaye

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. — Winston Churchill

Gratitude is the key to opening all doors. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone. — Mary Pope Osborne