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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.... -- Tennessee Williams
For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again. -- Bobby Fischer
To me, such functions are like supermarket openings. -- Norton Simon
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening. -- Andrew Davies
I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it. -- Kathleen Quinlan
I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings. -- Vera Wang
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that. -- Anthony Geary
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you. -- Buzz Aldrin
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There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now. -- John Elway
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings. -- Marco Brambilla
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
Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools. -- Ryan Holmes
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 barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales. -- Allen West
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece. -- Elizabeth Peyton
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 like to have a significant number of academics watching my back. -- Steven Pinker
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent. -- William Vickrey
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. -- Howard Staunton
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. -- John Woolman
And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people. -- John W. Snow
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 Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power. -- Al Gore
Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools. -- Ryan Holmes
I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition. -- Charles Saatchi
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, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way. -- Christopher Walken
Understudies don't normally get invited to openings. -- John Mulaney
There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing. -- Jane Hirshfield
For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own. -- Ai Weiwei
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. -- David Richo
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. -- Leigh Hunt
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later. -- Bill Jay
The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings -- Wilhelm Steinitz
Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings. -- Marc Crawford
A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings. -- Walter Winchell
By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events. -- Tracy Austin
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective. -- Emanuel Lasker
Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union. -- Laozi
I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work. -- Bethany Cosentino
Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress. -- Bill McKibben
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand. -- Harry Golombek
I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does. -- Eva Mendes
Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe. -- Laozi
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
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 you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings. -- Jose Raul Capablanca

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