Quotes on open

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

Author: James Agee

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

Author: David Amram

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Author: Marian Anderson

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

Author: Michael Andretti

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Author: Alexander Bell

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Author: Clive Bell

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Author: Hans Bender

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Author: Nuno Bettencourt

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

Author: Harrison Birtwistle

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

Author: Claire Bloom

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Author: James Broughton

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

Author: David Brower

Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.

Author: Craig Bruce

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Author: Craig Bruce

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Author: Martin Buber

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

Author: Cab Calloway

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Author: Joseph Campbell

I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Author: Tucker Carlson

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

Author: Wilt Chamberlain

Open the door to me, as I have opened myself for you.

Author: Jesus Christ

The title of the movie is open to interpretation.

Author: Thomas Church

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Author: Emile Cioran

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Author: Georges Clemenceau

I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.

Author: Roger Clemens

It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.

Author: Joel Coen

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

Author: Jackie Collins

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

Author: Rita Coolidge

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

Author: Robert Cormier

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

Author: Sheryl Crow

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

Author: Glenn Danzig

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

Author: Mike Davidson

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

Author: Patti Davis

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Author: Richard Dawkins

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

Author: George Dawson

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

Author: James Denton

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Author: Taisen Deshimaru

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Author: James Dewar

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Author: Thomas Dewar

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

Author: Snoop Dogg

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

Author: Richard Donner

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

Author: Lesley-Anne Down

We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play.

Author: John Entwistle

My brain is open.

Author: Paul Erdos

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

Author: Dennis Farina

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Author: Tim Flock

When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting.

Author: Robert Fortune

The French cook; we open tins.

Author: John Galsworthy

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.

Author: John Glover

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Author: Arthur Goldberg

You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes.

Author: Robert Goulet

I'm pretty much an open book.

Author: Lee Greenwood

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

Author: Dick Gregory

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Author: Granville Hall

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Author: Townsend Harris

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

Author: John Harrison

I'm trying to open a Chopper shop this year.

Author: Noah Hathaway

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

Author: Beth Henley

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.

Author: Betty Hill

I'm an open book.

Author: Benny Hinn

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Author: Horace

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

Author: Lena Horne

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Author: Harry Houdini

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

Author: Alan Hovhaness

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.

Author: Miguel Icaza

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Author: Christopher Isherwood

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

Author: Thomas Jarvis

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

Author: Mike Johanns

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

Author: Nick Johnson

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

Author: Kim Jung

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

Author: Kim Jung

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Author: Garrison Keillor

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault.

Author: John Kennedy

My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.

Author: Jahangir Khan

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

Author: Jahangir Khan

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Author: Robert Kiyosaki

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

Author: Allen Klein

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

Author: Leo Kottke

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

Author: Anna Kournikova

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Author: Karl Kraus

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

Author: Lenny Kravitz

Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

Author: John Kricfalusi

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Author: Neil LaBute

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

Author: Frank Lautenberg

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.

Author: Ivan Lendl

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.

Author: James Lipton

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

Author: Shannon Lucid

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Author: Bela Lugosi

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Author: Bob Marley

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

Author: Herman Melville

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

Author: Ethel Merman

I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

Author: Kylie Minogue

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Author: Michel Montaigne

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Author: Constance Motley

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

Author: Graham Nelson

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

Author: Graham Nelson

I'm very open to the up-and-comers.

Author: Bob Newhart

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

Author: Gavin Newsom

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

Author: Marc Newson

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

Author: Alva Noto

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

Author: Alva Noto

The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.

Author: Kim Novak

I am open to everything.

Author: Luciano Pavarotti

I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.

Author: Stuart Pearce

I open to anything... just about anything.

Author: Luke Perry

I'm very open-minded.

Author: Gabrielle Reece

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Author: Jules Renard

And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.

Author: Ed Rendell

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

Author: Cliff Richard

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

Author: Dennis Rodman

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.

Author: Brandon Routh

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

Author: Martin Scorsese

The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.

Author: Moshe Sharett

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

Author: Fiona Shaw

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Author: Jules Shear

The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.

Author: Brooke Shields

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

Author: Navjot Sidhu

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

Author: William Simms

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

Author: Terence Stamp

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Author: Lawrence Summers

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

Author: Shania Twain

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

Author: Tracey Ullman

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

Author: Miroslav Vitous

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

Author: Murray Walker

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

Author: Charles Warner

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Author: Denzel Washington

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Author: Cynthia Weil

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

Author: Morris West

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'

Author: Steven Wright

We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.

Author: Isaac Yeffet

Life's greatest lessons are often found in the most unexpected places, if only we are willing to open our hearts and minds to receive them.

Author: Sarah Jenkins

Life is a journey best navigated with an open heart, a curious mind, and a resilient spirit.

Author: Maya Angelou

Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to share, and a perspective to offer. Embrace the diversity of humanity with an open mind and a curious heart.

Author: Maya Angelou

Life is a journey meant to be traveled with open eyes, an open heart, and an open mind.

Author: Maya Angelou

Embrace uncertainty with an open heart, for in the stillness of not knowing lies the opportunity for infinite possibilities.

Author: Jenna Smith

The beauty of life lies in its unpredictability, embrace the unknown with open arms and watch miracles unfold.

Author: Stella Adler

The only way to truly learn and grow is to embrace change with an open mind, for stagnation is the enemy of progress.

Author: Maya Angelou

True growth begins when you embrace the unfamiliar with an open heart and open mind.

Author: Maya Angelou

True wisdom is not in knowing all the answers, but in being open to endless possibilities.

Author: Sharon Lee

Life is a journey best experienced with curiosity rather than certainty.

Author: Cassandra Davis

Life is a journey, embrace the detours along the way with an open heart and a curious mind.

Author: Emily Dickinson

Not all who wander are lost, they are just exploring new paths.

Author: Emily Williams

Life is a journey best traveled with an open mind and a curious heart.

Author: Mia Thompson

The mind is like a parachute - it only works when it's open.

Author: Samantha Lee

Embrace the unknown, for it holds the key to unlocking infinite possibilities.

Author: Sophia Adams

The mind is like a parachute, it only functions when open.

Author: Catherine Jenkins