Opening Quotes · Page 18

Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those…

— Patrick Fabian

I'm a believer that when one door closes another one opens. But why does the one opening always hit me full-speed-knob-first into…

— Bob Saget

Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Prince

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight…

— Joan Jett

'Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening…

— Justin Chon

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

— Sharon Salzberg

In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of…

— Kevin Powell

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take…

— Buzz Aldrin

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid…

— Annette Bening

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,…

— Bobby Fischer

There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in…

— Samuel Gompers

The message from history is so blatantly obvious - that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty - that it…

— Matt Ridley

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are…

— Vidya Balan

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because…

— Paolo Giordano

Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up…

— Jacques Derrida

There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b)…

— Neil Gaiman

I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels…

— Kevin Costner

The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things…

— John Stuart Mill

If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at…

— Charlie Munger

With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really…

— Tinsel Korey

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere…

— Terry Pratchett

They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the…

— James M. Barrie

Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes…

— Hilary Mantel

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

— Anne Carson

I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.

— Anne Waldman

“Opening the shop gave her, every morning, the same feeling of promise and opportunity. The books stood as neatly ranged as Gipping's…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people,…

— Robert Sean Leonard

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

— Jack Parsons

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

— Billy Sunday

The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on,…

— Cass Sunstein

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid…

— Margaret Atwood

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

— Anonymous

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 think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we…

— Allan Loeb

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

— Richard Hofstadter

I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick…

— Bob Goff

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

— Khalil Gibran

I've been sent somebody's heart in a jar. At that point, you're thinking, I'm not sure if I should be opening this!

— Alex Horne