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Openness Quotes (page 112)

Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio to a classical music station, light a cigarette or a cigar, open the bottle. The typer did the rest. All I had to do was be there. The whole process allowed me to continue when life itself offered very little, when life itself was a horror show. There was always the typer to soothe me, to talk to me, to entertain me, to save my ass. Basically that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my... Charles Bukowski
There's a Polar Bear. In our Frigidaire--He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat. And his face in the fish. And his big hairy paws. In the buttery dish, He's nibbling the noodles, And munching the rice, He's slurping the soda, He's licking the ice. And he lets out a roar. If you open the door. And it gives me a scare. To know he's in there--That Polary Bear. In our Fridgitydaire. Shel Silverstein
It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes. H. P. Lovecraft
I stretched out my hands, holding the falling sun in one hand, and the climbing moon in the other, my silver and gold, my gift from life. My gift of life. My life is a hesitation in time. An opening in a cave. A gap for a word. Jeanette Winterson
Clive Barker quote: "People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read."
People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read. Clive Barker
Aldous Huxley quote: "Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that..."
Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha. Aldous Huxley
Hiro feels even at this moment that something has been torn open in the world and that he is dangling above the gap, staring into a place where he does not want to be. Neal Stephenson
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it. Terry Prachett
When you open the box of an iPhone or iPad, we want that tactile experience to set the tone for how you perceive the product. Walter Isaacson
C. S. Lewis quote: "We need to keep our eyes and ears open."
We need to keep our eyes and ears open. C. S. Lewis
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. Napolean Hill
Charles Dickens quote: "A very little key will open a very heavy door."
A very little key will open a very heavy door. Charles Dickens
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Albert Camus
Mark Twain quote: "The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8."
The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8. Mark Twain
No one can get reall drunk on a novle or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Beethoven's night, Bartok's Sonata for two Pianos and percussion or the Beatles' White Album? He loved mozart as much as rock. He considered music a liberating force, it liberated him from lonliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of hi body and allowed his soul to step out into the world to make friends, He loved to dance an regretted that Sabina did not share his passionpg 92-93 Milan Kundera

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