Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening… — Thomas Jefferson
Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as… — Sheila Walsh
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the… — Anthony de Mello
The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should… — Emmet Gowin
I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves. — Joyce Tenneson
A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice… — Gordon Tullock
The Internet is a whole new world opening up. — Babyface
Opening amenities are often opening inanities. — Winston Churchill
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about… — Isaac D'Israeli
I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my… — Amanda Lindhout
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows
In the world of comics, Jack Kirby and Will Eisner may have been more influential artists, but Joe Kubert was its most influential man. Even… — Mark Waid
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had… — John Stuart Mill
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell… — Clive Barker
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book. — Kate Morton
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose… — Herbert Spencer
There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and… — George Brett
I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it… — John McAfee
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
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… — Katie Leclerc
My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell… — Meshell Ndegeocello
Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to… — Chris Ofili
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… — Kenzaburo Oe
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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