Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
~By Aristophanes ~
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
~By Joseph Howe ~
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
~By Jack Kingston ~
Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.
~By Lee Krasner ~
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
~By Mick Ralphs ~
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
~By Will Rogers ~
At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.
~By Anna Kournikova ~
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
~By Walt Disney ~
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
~By Jessica Biel ~
The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.
~By John Elway ~
I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'
~By Joe Manchin III ~
Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
~By Ann Rule ~
I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
~By Moss Hart ~
It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.
~By Julius Streicher ~
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
~By Adam Osborne ~
To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
~By Thomas Cochrane ~
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
~By Lionel Blue ~
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
~By James Hogg ~
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.
~By Robert Frost ~
Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
~By Andy Summers ~
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
~By Dorothy Allison ~
Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.
~By David Coleman ~
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.
~By Piper Perabo ~
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
~By David Soul ~
I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes.
~By Joel Gretsch ~
Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.
~By Tim Flock ~
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
~By Charles Vest ~
I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.
~By Channing Tatum ~
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.
~By George Clooney ~
Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.
~By James Mooney ~
I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
~By David Soul ~
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.
~By Norma McCorvey ~
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
~By Jane Austen ~
LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.
~By Paul Schrader ~
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
~By Helen Hayes ~
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
~By Tom Ford ~
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
~By James Reston ~
Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.
~By Goran Persson ~
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
~By Charles Dickens ~
I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.
~By Thomas Jordan Jarvis ~
Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.
~By Margo MacDonald ~
Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
~By Benny Hinn ~
I'm very open to the up-and-comers.
~By Bob Newhart ~
I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
~By Beth Henley ~
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
~By Bruno Rossi ~
I open to anything... just about anything.
~By Luke Perry ~
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.
~By Ronnie Montrose ~
Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
~By Betty Hill ~
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
~By Arthur Hays Sulzberger ~
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
~By David Coleman ~
I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.
~By Keren Ann ~
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.
~By Bill Owens ~
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and thin what we ought to do about it.
~By Peter Singer ~
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.
~By Dennis Farina ~
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
~By Benjamin Spock ~
There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any other light, other than having to buy Depends or Viagra.
~By Doris Roberts ~
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
~By Akhenaton ~
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.
~By Todd Barry ~
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
~By Adam Schiff ~
It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.
~By David Zucker ~
Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.
~By Payne Stewart ~
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.
~By Morley Safer ~
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.
~By Sherwood Boehlert ~
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
~By Quintus Ennius ~
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
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