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  • Opening amenities are often opening inanities. -- Winston Churchill
  • Opening your hands will set you free... -- Dave Ramsey
  • Opening/Starters are the inspirational pattern of Transformation. -- Gia Combs-Ramirez
  • Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world. -- Chogyam Trungpa
  • Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves. -- Stephanie Dowrick
  • Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open. -- George Jean Nathan
  • Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. -- Ronald Reagan
  • [John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites. -- Nan Goldin
  • I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat -- Andy Warhol
  • Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes. -- Kaki King
  • Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it. -- Jim Bouton
  • I hope my daughter, and one day my granddaughters, will be at Dodgers Opening Day. -- Mark Walter
  • Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom -- Madonna Ciccone
  • I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone. -- Johnny Depp
  • Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important. -- Tadashi Yanai
  • Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong. -- Trish Sie
  • Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. -- Billy Sunday
  • The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty. -- Albert Einstein
  • Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. -- Yousuf Karsh
  • Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream. -- Bridget Hall
  • Opening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy. -- John Mark Green
  • It isn't necessary to seek out adventure. Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences. -- Edward B. Lewis
  • Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know. -- Brian Andreas
  • When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green. -- Adam Ant
  • Opening your chakras and allowing cosmic energies to flow through your body will ultimately refresh your spirit and empower your life. -- Barbara Marciniak
  • Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. -- Simone Elkeles
  • Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. -- Walt Disney
  • Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation. -- Wayne Dyer
  • I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon. -- Gillian Jacobs
  • There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. -- George Vecsey
  • Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art -- Charles Bukowski
  • Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked. -- Pema Chodron
  • Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. -- Robert Frost
  • Well," said Ronan, "I hope he likes it. I've pulled a muscle." Gansey scoffed, "Doing what? You were standing watch." "Opening my hood. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice. -- Geneen Roth
  • Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young. -- Ted Alexandro
  • It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. -- Dawn Fraser
  • Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink. -- Gene Ween
  • The Internet is a whole new world opening up. -- Kenneth Edmonds
  • There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world. -- Hanoi Hannah
  • The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. -- Arthur Koestler
  • Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. -- Winston Churchill
  • A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together. -- Federico Fellini
  • They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93. -- Mary Hart
  • The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday. -- Jonathan Richman
  • Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own. -- Moss Hart
  • One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. -- Isabelle Adjani
  • 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
  • In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. -- Peter Agre
  • Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. -- Barbara Bush
  • Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR. -- Kenny Marchant
  • First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil. -- Sherwood Boehlert
  • The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. -- William Dampier
  • You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. -- Joe DiMaggio
  • I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. -- John Adams
  • The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness. -- Alex Grey
  • Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life. -- Hillary Clinton
  • I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. -- Nick Cave
  • I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should. -- Anupam Kher
  • The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. -- Milton Friedman
  • I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day. -- Roger Ebert
  • Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one. -- Thomas Perez
  • The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. -- Andy Rooney
  • It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities. -- Kristin Armstrong
  • There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. -- James Wolcott
  • Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. -- Steve Carell
  • You should breathe deeply and chant, 'Money will easily and effortlessly flow into my life' as often as you can every day. Things will start to change after a month. If you believe you will be financially secure, then you are opening yourself up to change. -- Louise L. Hay
  • Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. -- Jensen Ackles
  • 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, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. -- Douglas Rushkoff
  • I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways. -- Jon Hamm
  • I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. -- Anna Kendrick
  • People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe. -- Toni Collette
  • It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. -- Nikola Tesla
  • 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 I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot. -- Steven Spielberg
  • When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! -- Greg Kinnear
  • Forgetting oneself is opening oneself -- Dogen
  • Whining is anger through a small opening. -- Al Franken
  • No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
  • Where's the upside in opening your mouth? -- Ted Turner
  • Milk should be refrigerated even before opening. -- Andy Kindler
  • I was an opening act for 10 years. -- Shelby Lynne
  • What is the Heart? A flower opening... -- Rumi
  • Sunset is the opening music of the night. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I wouldn't miss the opening of a door. -- Nan Kempner
  • Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door. -- Ethel M. Dell
  • He turned slowly like a fridge door opening. -- Douglas Adams
  • Gratitude is the key to opening all doors. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • My mistake was in ever opening the books. -- Jack London
  • Every door is a door opening to another door! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The Internet is a whole new world opening up. -- Kenneth Edmonds
  • Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant. -- Bobby Flay
  • We ought to be opening a bottle of wine! -- Edith Wharton
  • In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found. -- Hugh Howey
  • The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it. -- Graeme Le Saux
  • What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities. -- Michel Foucault
  • We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc. -- Tom Peters
  • Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia. -- Betty Hill
  • I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic. -- Evan Rachel Wood
  • The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. -- John Fahey
  • My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood. -- Kurtis Blow
  • What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening. -- Laozi
  • A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts. -- Judith Orloff
  • The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty. -- Byron Katie
  • To begin is no more agony than opening your hand. -- June Jordan
  • The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart -- James Taylor
  • Everyone can experience loving himself and opening up to awareness. -- James Van Praagh
  • You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut. -- Max Lucado
  • Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality. -- Richard Bach
  • You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. -- Bashar al-Assad
  • Nothing brings closure to a campaign like opening it up again. -- Jon Stewart
  • No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word. -- Thomas Dreier
  • Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors. -- Debbie Macomber
  • If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them! -- Marshall Goldsmith
  • Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much? -- Ian MacKaye
  • Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough. -- Savielly Tartakower
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