Top 1200 Opening Ceremony Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

The kundalini of the supraconscious has nothing to do with the shushumna. That light comes down, from the crown center and has nothing to do with the opening. It descends and inundates.

To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.

Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

There's something exciting about traveling the world and opening up your eyes to what the rest of the world is doing.

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.

Working in Korea with the talent and staff there was very eye-opening. I was in awe of everyone's talent, passion, and love for the process.

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

For an opening batsman, it's important to hit a few balls in the middle of the bat and get a few boundaries going.

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.

My idea of opening a restaurant was important. The whole point is that I couldn't have been totally dependent on acting for my income... even though I want to remain in the field of entertainment forever.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

Offshore drilling is not the solution to U.S. energy independence, and I am against opening parts of the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans to oil and natural gas production.

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically 'Amnesiac' - my brother gave me that album.

I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.

Sometimes making people laugh or even making them scared can be accomplished by a good opening sequence.

It's hard for me to trust people, and especially girls it's - I don't really like doing the whole opening-up thing with girls.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.'

When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.

It's not about opening a door and shutting it right behind you. I want to keep it open so others can come behind me.

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.

Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

I'm involved with this exhibition, which is a collection of Nobby Clarke's photos of the opening night of my own art exhibition.

The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening.

It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

I think by me playing inside-out, it's really been opening up that 3-point shot for me.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

A big hook can be great; you'll have a big opening. But if you haven't got the right foundation, you're never going to keep that train on the tracks.