Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at… — Michel de Montaigne
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend… — Bill Nighy
A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after… — Michel de Montaigne
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost. — William Cowper
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard.… — Elizabeth Janeway
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That… — Chogyam Trungpa
Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is… — Eckhart Tolle
A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the… — Yann Martel
I had an Aston Martin phone worth ?15,000 given to me as a present. I dropped it in a gin and tonic about 15 seconds… — Simon Jordan
From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to… — Kelvin Sampson
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand. — Robert Genn
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one… — Saint Patrick
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand… — John Muir
What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door. — Emily Dickinson
The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the… — Walt Disney
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting… — John Muir
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the… — Beverley Nichols
Yes, [Philadelphia is] horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there was so much… — David
Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory. — Arnold Palmer
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating,… — Michael Jackson

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