Opening Quotes - Page 3

• I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Giving

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• From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

  Kevin James

  Play, Community Theatre, Opening Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

  Kurtis Blow

  Hollywood, Jam, Diplomats

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• Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Careers, Saws, Firsts

  Interview with Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. December 20, 2004.

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• But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

  Ronnie Spector

  Hair, Guy, Stones

  "Ronnie's spectre". Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

  Joan Jett

  Together, Different, Band

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• I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

  John Newcombe

  Eight, Eric, World

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• The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

  Arthur Koestler

  Carpe Diem, Perfection, Principles

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Long

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.

  Antonia Novello

  Jobs, Children, Work

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• If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Thinking

  C.K. Prahalad (2009). “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits”, p.25, FT Press

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• You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Doors

  Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

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• We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Moving On, Moving Forward

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

  Mary Hart

  Deals, Knows

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Literature, Mouths

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• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  Billy Sunday

  Doors, Temptation, Devil

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

  Babyface

  Opening Up, World, Internet

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• Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Wine, Knowing

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• Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

  Gene Ween

  Ninety Nine, Band, Stink

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• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Doors, World, Policy

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• If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Play, Ideas, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

  George Clooney

  Weekend, Lucky, Proud

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• The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Government, Opening Up

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• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Talking, House

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

  Anthony Sampson

  Egyptian, Liable, Monarchy

  Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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