Top 1200 Opening Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling

When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.

Opening up your life to a dog who needs a home is one of the most fulfilling things you can do.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.

My only role in the opening of the schools has been to suggest and encourage opening them. But it is impossible for there to be a [central authority] controlling the schools. They are in more than 100 countries, and there must be many different companies that have opened and run them.

I had planned on taking things easy for a while in 2014 but things started to crop up and I ended up having quite a busy year, with events including the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games with Rod Stewart.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

Clearly America businesses are interested in opening up new markets not just in Cuba, but all over the world.

Opening for Mr. Sinatra in 1991 enabled me to do Vegas more as an opening act. I did the Superdome with him, probably nine arenas over a year and a half, and his second-to-last appearance at the Desert Inn in Vegas.

As a film-maker, it's only natural to feel happy about new possibilities opening up.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

One of Lady Antebellum's first big tours was opening up for Kenny Chesney.

I knew I had to be in football, but I didn't know what that looked like. I made a pact with myself that I would stand up for that challenge. I had no idea how big that would be. There were no jobs for women in football, and my work was elsewhere, but I kept with my passion, and thankfully, it ended up opening up doors.

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

Opening a small business is a reasonable thing for you to do but should tax payer, should an ordinary worker have to pay more money in taxes because someone across the street from them opened up a business which might well go under? For a lot of people opening a business is a bad choice for them. Most small businesses fail. I understand people wanting to give it a try and everything but we're not necessarily doing them a favor to say, take all your life savings, borrow to the hilt, and then struggle for three years and end up with nothing. We're not necessarily doing them a favor.

I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.

Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

What we love about working at Marvel is they'll have a crazy opening for a movie like 'The Avengers' - like, a record-breaking all-time opening - and you get to the office on Monday, and they don't even have a pizza; it's back-to-work time.

People always complain that superhero movies end with a big fight scene where they're tearing up a city, and there's a portal opening up, and they have to close it... I wanted to have a climactic scene that subverted those familiar ideas.

When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

Opening presents at midnight on Christmas Eve - midnight! As soon as it turns to Christmas Day, we're opening those gifts.

I sit before flowers ?hoping they will train me in the art ?of opening up

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

When a Brazilian player comes to England and is successful, he ends up opening doors to other players.

I suppose the key for me is about opening up experiences and untold stories to audiences.

I've found myself very vulnerable in some of my moments, but that's because I'm opening up to invite people to come on this journey.

Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.

Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

I always carry a pocketknife in my pocket for opening boxes, cutting a string, or whatever little thing comes up.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.

At the NYPD, a judge doesn't need to sign off on opening up an investigation into a mosque as a terrorism organization. The oversight is internal.

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

My dad grew up as a computer programmer, so he always had random computer software, and I started opening up editing software at age 12 and figuring out how to build websites.

I will tell you that we're all human beings, and we all care about what people think of us. But in general, their outlook is, "We're not looking at opening night numbers. We're not looking at opening night box office. We want this to be part of the reason you come to our service."

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

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

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

The idea of windows, that's so symbolic to me within labor. And I'm always opening windows during a birth. If someone's been in labor all night and they're exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.

Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.