Opening Quotes - Page 6

• I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

  John Leguizamo

  Latin, Artist, Doors

  The New York Times, July 14, 1991.

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• Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Philosophical, Self

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Doors, Dinner, Buying

  "A Guided Tour of Evan Rachel Wood: A Woman We Love" by Julian Sanction, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2011.

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• Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get so much love in your life. and it's the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.

  Amy Poehler

  Powerful, Real, Heart

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• Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.

  Amy Poehler

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

  Jeff Daniels

  Night, Hands, Play

  Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 01, 2011.

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• I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does.

  Eva Mendes

  Careers, Doe, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

  Kathleen Quinlan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That’s not me. I wouldn’t [take paternity leave.] Quite frankly, I would have said C-section before the season starts. I need to be at Opening Day. I’m sorry.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sorry, Needs, Said

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• Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Secret, Energy, Cosmos

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

  Winston Churchill

  Bottles, Sparkle, Champagne

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• Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Heart, Unique, Self

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• Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.

  Michael Chiarello

  Opening Up, Spain, Enough

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• There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.

  Brian Evenson

  Events, Gaps, Void

  Brian Evenson (2009). “Fugue State”, Coffee House Pr

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• I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

  Andrew Flintoff

  Different, Envelopes, Turns

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

  Gael Greene

  Vegan, Wonderful, God Knows

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• I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Use, Stitches

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• There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it.

  W. C. Fields

  Eight, Body, Lawyer

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• I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.

  Tadao Ando

  Wall, Mean, Cities

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• You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

  Amit Ray

  Flower, Psychics, Meditation

  "OM Chanting and Meditation". Book by Amit Ray, 2010.

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• For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

  Hal Borland

  Men, Hands, Bird

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• With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible.

  Irwin Corey

  Change, Heart, Profound

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• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

  Mary Schmich

  Baseball, Disappointment, Hangover

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

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• A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing unfreedom and the rebelling forces, thus breaking through the mystified (and petrified) social reality, and opening the horizon of change (liberation).

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Fate, Reality

  Herbert Marcuse (2007). “Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.62, Routledge

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• The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing, tends always to draw the world into itself and keep it there

  Martin Heidegger

  Self, World, Earth

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