Opening Quotes · Page 69

I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him…

— Ken Jennings

The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.

— Lucas Samaras

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative…

— Faye Wattleton

I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second,"…

— Rachel Caine

I do look at fashion, and I love going to Opening Ceremony and seeing what they have. Seeing what Jeremy Scott is…

— Jim Drain

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal…

— Jonathan Kozol

What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it…

— Elizabeth Smart

Kennedy's assassination was the opening salvo in the social revolution of the sixties. In some ways, perhaps, Princess Diana and Mother Teresa…

— Marianne Williamson

You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut.

— Max Lucado

I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New…

— Ai Weiwei

Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

— Ted Turner

Somewhere along the line a convention developed that the opening of a film was just a laundry list of credits. There was…

— Saul Bass

I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.

— Rosie O'Donnell

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

— Garry Kasparov

Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a…

— Chogyam Trungpa

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I…

— 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

Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because…

— Debra Winger

I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there…

— Vijender Singh

Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in…

— Rie Rasmussen

Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

— Tadashi Yanai

We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good,…

— Goldie Hawn

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but…

— Richard Blumenthal

[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education…

— Gloria Estefan