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Quotes About Opening

My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.
~ Jung Chang
The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin.
~ Rie Rasmussen
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
~ Anne Carson
Magical morning lights, dreamy sky, Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes
~ Debasish Mridha
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
~ Gaston Bachelard
The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.
~ John Keats
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
First opportunity is the golden opportunity.
~ Amit Kalantri
The poem begins, "About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position; how it takes place / While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
~ Will Schwalbe
My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to open at $52 million and to know the movie wasn't good.
~ Will Smith
Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a church, its exotic setting and strange names, the rolling orchestration of its prose.
~ William H. Gass
The old man opened the door with all the ease of the Venus de Milo cracking a safe.
~ William McIlvanney
I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.
~ Mick Jagger
Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.
~ Tim Bevan
Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.
~ Amy Lowell
I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.
~ Kenny Loggins
Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.
~ Will Rogers
He wanted to know what I thought. It was the opening of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was sharp and insane.
~ Jann S. Wenner
the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things...
~ E.E. Cummings
Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
~ E.E. Cummings
your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
~ E.E. Cummings
However, the irruption of disorder into a person's life, and the resultant collapse of a mentally defined meaning, can become the opening into a higher order.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs