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Quotes About Opening

My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates were, and he was so quick.
~ Marco Reus
'Random Rules' kicks off 'American Water,' and from its opening line - 'In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection' - you know you're in for something strange and special.
~ George Pelecanos
Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.
~ Kurt Elling
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
~ Ulrich Beck
At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.
~ Victor Koo
The robots are far more trippy and opening your imagination than my face or Thomas' face, and the way we live, which is not even a crazy celebrity lifestyle.
~ Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.
~ Adoniram Judson
A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.
~ Rumi
My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
~ Jermaine Dupri
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
~ Robert Redford
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.
~ Anne Rice
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.
~ Annie Dillard
An opening is like a doorway, and there is no such thing as a doorway that you can only go through one way. Yes, we are trying to penetrate in, but what is trying to come out to meet us? It
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
~ Nancy Kress
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
Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.
~ Carlos Wilcox
I should tell you, Stella, that your clothes are completely unsuitable for this weather.' 'It's okay,' I said, opening my car door. 'I don't plan on wearing them for very long.
~ Marian Keyes
WELCOME TO THE BLACKBOARDS This is the Cordovites' premier wormhole, where time ticks backward, trees grow down, light eats itself, fear is an opening, and life is Sovereign, Deadly, Perfect.
~ Marisha Pessl
In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark. We need a healthy appreciation for what kind of obstacles we are facing within ourselves, and we need a method for working our way around those obstacles. It is in this sense that the path is the goal - opening leads to further opening. The Buddha's meditative teachings are about finding and incorporating a method around our obstacles.
~ Mark Epstein
Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space is revealed for the digging. In just this way, when experience opens us, it often feels violent and the urge, quite naturally, is to refill that opening, to make it the way it was. But every experience excavates a depth, which reveals its wisdom once opened to air.
~ Mark Nepo
The gate opened. The gate closed. In a moment of time too short to be measured, space opened and turned on itself.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Vocea viorii este zgomotul pe care-l face, deschizandu-se, poarta paradisului.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Raise those great black eyes of yours, fixed on my opening sentence, and keep this excitement for the letter which shall tell you of my first love. By the way, why always "first?" Is there, I wonder, a second love?
~ balzac honore de xiii
We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.
~ Kenneth Lay