Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter.… — Morihei Ueshiba
Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty… — Rufus Wainwright
Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know,… — Christopher Walken
I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was… — Emma Watson
Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with… — Allen West
I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually… — Henry Winkler
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. — Hanna Rosin
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system,… — Douglas Rushkoff
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without… — Mark Twain
Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on… — Eudora Welty
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned… — Robert Browning
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… — Jeanette Winterson
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my… — Flann O'Brien
Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other… — Terry Pratchett
In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up… — Augusten Burroughs
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method. — James Thurber
There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream… — Neil Gaiman
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.... — Tennessee Williams
Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job… — Jen Lancaster
He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or… — Melody Beattie
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies. — Elizabeth Gilbert
What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few… — Jeanette Winterson
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and… — Linda Pastan

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