Someone opened up the floodgates and now I'm drowning.

“I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I…

— Amy Harmon

With any form of change, it's kind of like you're dislodging something. Once you've done it a little bit, you can open the floodgates.

— Matthew Hussey

It was as though in these last minutes together--when they had so much to say--they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear…

— Clive Barker

When it rains, it pours. When the floodgates open, brace your shores. That pressure don't care when it breaks your doors. Say it's all…

— Linkin Park

“...the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...”

— Herman Melville

When a cupboard is full to overflowing and the doors are opened up, that which is within comes tumbling out and nothing can stop…

— Eileen Caddy

No one will ever know how many nights I sit at my window watching the rain pour down outside while the floodgates burst in…

— Kaliana Dietrich

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

— Philip Johnson

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea…

— Wayne Kramer

I have never done television, essentially, so the Internet has made me and opened avenues for me.

— Mithila Palkar

“To me, you are a book I have opened. I can't put it down. I need to know more.”

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.

— James Lipton

“She opened for me, every part of her available and soft for me.  Except her heart, I thought.  That she had closed to me,…

— R.K. Lilley

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.…

— Ben Okri