Open Book Quotes

• The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Astrology, Heaven

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• My career is an open book, but my life is not.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Book, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  Ralph Thomas Walker

  Book, Humble, Illusions Of Grandeur

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• To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Book, Eye

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

  Blake Shelton

  Book, Has Beens

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• A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

  Robert Frost

  Book, Looks, Breeze

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.496, Harvard University Press

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• People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

  Phil McGraw

  Book, People, Should

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• It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

  Drew Barrymore

  Book, Thinking, People

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• You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Life, Book, Advice

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• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Writing, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

  Ice T

  Book, Kind, None Of Your Business

  "Ice-T and Coco Preview Their New Talk Show (and Maybe Stir Up a Few Daytime Feuds Along the Way)". Interview with Lanford Beard, people.com. July 27, 2015.

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• Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

  Betsy Landin

  Dream, Book, Fall

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

  A. J. McLean

  Book, Trying

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• In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Grace, Ink

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• . . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Book, Daily Activities, Cooking

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• You cannot open a book without learning something.

  Confucius

  Educational, Book, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

  Michael Moriarty

  Book, Knows

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• About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Effort, Letters

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• If you're an open book, there's no allure.

  Alexander McQueen

  Book, Allure, Ifs

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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• I'm not very much an open book, I do really express myself only through my music and when I'm in that safe environment and I don't have to let anything go out of the studios that I don't want to go out.

  Ella Henderson

  Book, Safe Environment, Anything Goes

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• Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of 5 and live accordingly.

  Helen Thomas

  Running, Book, Office

  "Uncovering the White House / Journalist Helen Thomas talks about presidents past and present and shares memories of JFK, LBJ and Martha Mitchell". SFGate interview, www.sfgate.com. January 29, 1995.

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• I'm pretty much an open book. I've pretty much talked about anything I'm going through onstage. Between interviews and curious fans, I've been asked everything. And I always give answers. I don't shy away from anything.

  Kevin Hart

  Book, Giving, Fans

  "The “Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  Lalla Ward

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.

  Mia Sheridan

  Book, Heart, Love Is

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• I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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