Opening Quotes - Page 3

What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.

I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.

We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

Understudies don't normally get invited to openings.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

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

Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.

...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

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

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

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

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.

When I was younger and was working as a Dia guard I would go to see everything. I went to every opening. I was really interested in seeing and learning as much as I could.

An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.