I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.
~By Freddie Hubbard ~
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~By Graham Greene ~
Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.
~By John Glover ~
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
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.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
I have made it totally clear to the players that my door will always be open.
~By Stuart Pearce ~
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
~By Reba McEntire ~
There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
~By Sonny Terry ~
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.
~By Tim Roth ~
At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.
~By Anna Kournikova ~
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
~By Washington Irving ~
I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
~By Evangelista Torricelli ~
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 ~
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
~By John Hughes ~
Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm.
~By Jo Bonner ~
An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
~By Bob Nelson ~
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.
~By Jahangir Khan ~
I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.
~By Graham Nelson ~
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
~By Dane Cook ~
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
~By George Soros ~
Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms.
~By Frank Jordan ~
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.
~By Will Estes ~
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.
~By Greg Norman ~
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
~By John Ciardi ~
My brain is open.
~By Paul Erdos ~
I love baseball, and the door remains open.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.
~By Steve Forbert ~
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
~By Andre Maurois ~
I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."
~By Mako ~
Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.
~By Frank Luntz ~
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
~By Joseph Hume ~
I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
~By Brandon Routh ~
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 ~
And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.
~By David Kay ~
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.
~By Sean Connery ~
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.
~By Eric Brown ~
You know, I'm pretty much an open book.
~By Rita Coolidge ~
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
~By Jessamyn West ~
Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.
~By John Henry Carver ~
I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.
~By Paul Bettany ~
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
~By Lance Morrow ~
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 ~
Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!
~By John Cusack ~
I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.
~By Roger Ebert ~
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
~By Howard Staunton ~
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
~By John Berger ~
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 ~
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
~By Philip Sidney ~
Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.
~By Anders Fogh Rasmussen ~
If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
~By Dick Gregory ~
For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
~By Joey Ramone ~
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
~By William Brewster ~
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
~By Ralph Thomas Walker ~
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
~By Thomas R. Dewar ~
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 cannot open a book without learning something.
~By Confucius ~
We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
~By Tim Robbins ~
The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.
~By Donald Evans ~
They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
I'm an open book.
~By Benny Hinn ~
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
~By Joan Jett ~
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
It is increasingly important to be open-minded.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
~By Larry Wall ~
We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
We know that the airports are not protected as they should be protected. The terminals are public areas, wide open - anyone can go and walk at any terminal he wants.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
~By George Mercer Dawson ~
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.
~By Jaime Hernandez ~
Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.
~By Georges Rouault ~
I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.
~By Leo Kottke ~
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
~By Nicole Sullivan ~
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.
~By Willie Dixon ~
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
~By Adam Smith ~
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