Opening Quotes - Page 40

• Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Understanding, Patterns, Development

  Bernard Lonergan (1992). “Insight: A Study of Human Understanding”, p.70, University of Toronto Press

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• To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.

  Lajos Portisch

  Self Confidence, Player, Simplicity

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• There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jul 23, 2013

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• When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

  David Ogilvy

  Office, People, Curiosity

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• The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

  Al Hirschfeld

  Night, Casts, Shows

  1988 In the NewYork Times, 21 Jun.

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• I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I'll call them Lapland!!!

  Pamela Anderson

  Home, Looks, Heritage

  The London Paper (p. 21), June 27, 2007.

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• Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Zero, Mistake, Men

  "A Man. A Legend. A What!?" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. September 23, 1991.

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• There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Past, Long, Giving

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.

  Esther Earl

  Insecure, Self, Tasks

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• Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

  George Eliot

  Life, Distance, Views

  George Eliot (1883*). “The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot”

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• Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

  George Eliot

  Love, Summer, Girl

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.113, 谷月社

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• O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Heaven, Saving

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• Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.77, Anchor

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• Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

  Amy Lowell

  Rose, Joy

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst.

  Pauline Kael

  Home, Sunday, Night

  "Mirrors". Review of "Places in the Heart" on October 15, 1984. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 246, 1985.

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• Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.

  Alan Seeger

  Beauty, Sweet, Heart

  Alan Seeger, Amanda Harlech (2001). “Alan Seeger: the complete works”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.

  Tibor Fischer

  Men, Doors, Order

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Children, Party

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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• The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Fun, Thinking, Goal

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

  Herbert Spencer

  Eye, Simple, Doors

  Herbert Spencer (1871). “Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic”, p.11

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• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.119, Yale University Press

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• Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

  Tony Benn

  Please Me, Old Wounds, Energy

  "Mr Benn delays EEC meeting". "The Times" Newspaper, December 13, 1975.

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• Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Boxing, Bullfighting

  Song: Style

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• Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Swings, Cds

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

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• As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

  Tim Robbins

  Saving Private Ryan, Battle, Would Be

  2003 Speech to the National Press Club,Washington DC,15 Apr.

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