Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

- Andrew Davies

I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

- Bobby Flay

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

- Billy Corgan

My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.

- Billy Collins

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

- Bashar al-Assad

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

- Barbara Bush

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

- Anthony Sampson

I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.

- Abbey Lee Kershaw

It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.

- Anthony Anderson

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

- Andrew Stanton

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

- Alice Cooper

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

- Andre Holland

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

- Alex Grey

I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.

- Anupam Kher

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

- Antony Gormley

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

- Arthur Koestler

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

- Annette Bening

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.

- Andy Goldsworthy

China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

- Amy Chua