Open Quotes - page 4

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, "Ugh" ..." (Louis C.K.)
Close thy Byron open thy Goethe. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Time has laid his hand Upon my heart gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly. View quote
Georges Rouault
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue. View quote
Robert Frost
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D. C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
A book is a gift you can open again and again. View quote
Garrison Keillor
I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. View quote
Malcolm Forbes
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My life is an open book. With illustrations. (Hugh Hefner)
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.' View quote
Steven Wright
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through. View quote
Kirsten Gillibrand
I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a. m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a. m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a. m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. View quote
Octavia Butler
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. View quote
Octavia Butler
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! View quote
Frances Burney
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. View quote
Dean Koontz
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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. View quote
John Leguizamo
Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff! View quote
Dr. Seuss
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the 'Universe'), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth. View quote
Galileo Galilei
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. View quote
Nhat Hanh