All Quotes

The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
‐‐ Tatiana de Rosnay

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.
‐‐ Jenny Scheinman

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
‐‐ Matthew Sweet

The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.
‐‐ Jonathan Zittrain

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
‐‐ Rudolf Bing

The opera in Los Angeles is excellent.
‐‐ James Gray

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
‐‐ Cleveland Amory

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
‐‐ Harrison Birtwistle

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
‐‐ Dario Argento

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
‐‐ James Madison

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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‐‐ John Quelch

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
‐‐ Sadaharu Oh

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
‐‐ Bob Riley

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
‐‐ Angus Wilson

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
‐‐ Sally Field

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
‐‐ Charles Kettering

The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.
‐‐ Stephen Cohen

The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.
‐‐ Moshe Sharett

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.
‐‐ Gerald Chertavian

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
‐‐ David Geffen

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
‐‐ Jane Wyman

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
‐‐ Voltaire

The opportunity here in the U.S. is so unique because we are so diverse, with so many different cultures living together. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists, all with their own connections to the spiritual aspects of food and with lessons that we can learn from each other.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
‐‐ Sam Elliott

The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life.
‐‐ Kygo

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
‐‐ T. J. Thyne

The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.
‐‐ Adhir Kalyan

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.
‐‐ Darren Flutie

The opportunity to orbit the Earth, witnessing multiple sunrises and sunsets every day, looking back to our small blue life-sustaining jewel from a distance, gives me the greatest sense of anticipation.
‐‐ Sarah Brightman

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.
‐‐ Deborah Cox

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
‐‐ Jim Hightower

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
‐‐ Niels Bohr

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.
‐‐ Mehmet Oz

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
‐‐ Robert Anthony

The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest.
‐‐ Cynthia Dill

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
‐‐ Rollo May

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
‐‐ Anne Lamott

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel