Best 73 quotes in «opening quotes» category

It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .

How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security, welcome and respect. If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one's entire life.

En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches, duelos y quebrantos los sábados, lentejas los viernes, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos, conmuían las tres partes de su hacienda. El resto della concluían sayo de velarte, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de los mesmo, y los días de entresemana se honraba con su vellorí de lo más fino.

Go to the beginning.

Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.

Listen to my story, this may be our last chance.

Monogamous relationships can be based on fear: fear of losing my partner because he might fall in love with another woman, or fear that she may find a more secure man with a deeper purpose than my own to guide and protect her. “Nevertheless it also can be based on love where our commitment to open and be opened by one intimate partner becomes our way to express love for him or her, our children, friends, and ultimately the whole world and Source.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is how we all live, it's the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It's like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It's like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you - and it can't, and it shouldn't, because something IS missing. That isn't of its nature negative. The missing part, the missing past, can be an opening, not a void. It can be an entry as well as an exit. It is the fossil record, the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of Braille.

The spiders will always hatch out of the flowers. But now I like to think about the moments before, when they're just flowers, blooming, and they can be pinched closed, so all that prettiness last a little longer before the inevitable horror comes.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

To make the best dicision for a book first check out the title, second check out the cover, third to check out the category what type is it - is it a horror or thriller or it's a psychology - it's important this. Then for sure check out little what's about the book. By openning it and reading the first 3 pages or as much as possible to make your decision!

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

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.

He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.

If only opening a Vitamin Water could be classified as working out.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

If you look at the new places opening, they're quite gutsy, earthy places.

In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.

Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?

In the end, we have nothing to lose by opening our hearts.

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

I would like to hear from Chancellor Merkel what she was thinking when opening the borders. I cannot imagine at all what it was.

It isn't necessary to seek out adventure.  Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences.

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.

Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.

Nothing brings closure to a campaign like opening it up again.

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

... on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.

Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong.

Milk should be refrigerated even before opening.

Opening day -- or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it.