Opening Quotes

[Miss] Piggy was amazing, I was nervous because I wrote our opening. I wrote the song, wrote what we were going to do. And first I was hoping that they would approve it, because they're not playing.

Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.

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

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

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

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

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

I was way more nervous on the opening day of the Ryder Cup than the first round of any major. Every Ryder Cup match is like being in the last group on Sunday in a major.

The score a player reports on any hole should always be regarded as his opening offer.

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

I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

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.

Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

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

Who is John Galt?

We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.

Never eat potato chips without first opening the packet!

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it's something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.

This date had started as bland and was speeding right along to abysmal.

I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.

Your mind is the key to opening the door of opportunity.

When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the pieces that make up you.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

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

I used to see dolphins as cute, Smart and funny sea animals. I know now that they're astute, Divine beings, clever mammals.

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

Maybe punching her enemy right in the nose wasn't the smartest way to get out of class, but it was definitely a much more entertaining way.

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality.

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.

The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.

A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic.

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.

On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.

Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.

As a little girl, I'd have given up my Barbie Dreamhouse to have a miniature purple dragon - as an adult, I didn't find it nearly as exciting.

I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn’t work, I’m going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.