Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer… — Elon Musk
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. — George Orwell
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong. — Nancy Pelosi
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I… — Steven Pinker
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. — Ronald Reagan
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. — Ronald Reagan
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in… — Robert Redford
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad… — Andy Rooney
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. — Jerry Saltz
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy. — Sharon Salzberg
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. — Carl Sandburg
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it… — Curt Schilling
I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up,… — Martin Scorsese
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands… — Will Self
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA,… — Rob Sheffield
I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer… — Steven Spielberg
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or… — Steven Spielberg
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea… — Adlai E. Stevenson
I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt… — George Strait
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. — Billy Sunday
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my… — Charles R. Swindoll
You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out… — Matt Taibbi
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music… — Quentin Tarantino
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. — Henry David Thoreau
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a… — Sam Taylor-Wood

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