Quotes About Opening

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It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe; it breathed the very savor of Gospel antiquity. The sincerity of the author heightens his power of language.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

I am the door.

Maybe...a person can experience an illness as a kind of health. Maybe not every disease is a deficit, a taking away. Maybe what's happening to her is an opening, a window, a migration.

She actually found it on the first page.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

Some things forgive. People always / do, whether they die or not. Eventually. / Somehow. Opening. You're heart's / bad. Half of it. How come? My heart's / horrendous. A thief-book. Held wrong / at twelve, half-loved. Poetry is. / truly remarkable trash.

Marty took the key out of his pocket, pushed the green button, and tore an opening in the side of the Orb. "Now look what you've done!" Luther said. "You've wrecked Ted's Orb." "How clumsy of me," Marty said.

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.

She had the kind of radical confidence about her own highly personal expression that people acquire when they understand that performance is not about getting your act together, but about opening up to the energy of the audience and of the music, and letting it sing in your unique voice.

He always had trouble opening his heart. Tonight it was stuck again. It was a wooden chest secured by locked iron bands. An army duffel, rusted zipper. Kitchen cupboards glued shut. Tabernacle. Desk. Closet. He had to wedge apart doors, lift covers. He was always disappointed to find a drab or menacing interior. To make a welcoming place of his heart was mentally slippery work. Sometimes cleaning was involved, rearrangements. He had to dust. He had to throw out old junk to make room.

In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell.

A game to write a persuasive opening sentence for a book they have never read (this is difficult, as these diligent students have read everything) leads to a chilling start to Woolf's The Waves: I was too far out in the ocean to hear the lifeguard shouting, "Shark! Shark!

Actually travel is the opposite of depression. Depression is a curling inward, and travel is an opening outward.

I stole several glances at the jury," Pafko says about the opening, "and they could not take their eyes from you." Stern tempers his pleasure in his client's compliments with the knowledge that Kiril has never abandoned the Argentinian way and frequently brings forth a river of fulsome bullshit.

Nutshells close and encapsulate, shelter and protect, reduce and simplify, while everything in deconstruction is turned toward opening, exposure, expansion, and complexification, toward releasing unheard of, undreamt of possibilities to come , toward cracking nutshells wherever they appear.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.

Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

We've got a gallery here, in Chelsea. Plus London and Berlin. That's why I'm trying to get to Germany. For an opening.