Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my… — Aron Ralston
You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily… — Cate Tiernan
While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together… — Milan Kundera
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. — Haruki Murakami
Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of… — Stephen King
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of… — Alice Sebold
I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Shut up," Daniel said, but he said it softly and so tenderly that Luce suprised both of them by obeying. "I don't think you're stupid."… — Lauren Kate
But I also meant that loving someone really opening your heart to them is just asking to have your heart smashed and handed back to… — Cate Tiernan
Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least… — Robert Farrar Capon
He turned slowly like a fridge door opening. — Douglas Adams
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The… — Virginia Woolf
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were… — Matt Taibbi
To begin is no more agony than opening your hand. — June Jordan
The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing… — Pope Benedict XVI
It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look… — Rachel Caine
I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally… — Jerome K. Jerome
Maybe my values are outdated, but I come from an old school of thought. I think that men ought to treat women like something other… — Jim Butcher
I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Give me the effing phone, Strider grumbled, opening his palm and waving his fingers. Effing? William laughed with genuine amusement. You ever realize how polite… — Gena Showalter
But surprises were nothing new to her. Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway. — Sarah Addison Allen
Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?"… — Janet Evanovich
I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries… — Robert A. Heinlein
Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an… — Ilona Andrews
But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening… — Lisa Kleypas

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