My life is an open book. With illustrations. — Hugh Hefner
Open books, not legs. Blow minds, not guys — Drake
My life has been an open book, for better or for worse. — Blake Shelton
You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book. — Aneurin Bevan
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent. — Phil McGraw
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam. — Alan Blinder
An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in. — Mike Hernacki
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. — Edward P. Morgan
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Our identities are open systems, and so are our lives. — Adam Grant
Short Open Book Quotes
A book is a gift you can open again and again. — Garrison Keillor
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection. — Carl Jung
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. — Cornelia Funke
You cannot open a book without learning something. — Confucius
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Indian Proverbs
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. — Rudyard Kipling
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. — Richard Bach
Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue — Andy Biersack
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard
Top 10 Open Book Quotes
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself. — Haile Selassie
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. — Ernest Hemingway
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. — Sivananda
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. — Vera Nazarian
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live. — Paul McCartney
Avoidants are not exactly open books and tend to repress rather than express their emotions. — Amir Levine
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. — John Bevere
I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter. — Pablo Neruda
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. — Helen Hayes
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone. — Mary Pope Osborne
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
I Am An Open Book Quotes
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. — Ralph Thomas Walker
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me. — Lisa Scottoline
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice. — Thomas Friedman
The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside. — Kaci Brown
I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards. — Happy Rhodes
Being An Open Book Quotes
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? — Carl Sagan
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book. — Cynthia Heimel
I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass? — Anthony De Mello
If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing. — J. K. Rowling
Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people. — Neal A. Maxwell
Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written. — Kevin Hart
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want. — Elmore Leonard
Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp. — Thomas A. Edison
I try to be an open book now as much as possible. — A. J. McLean
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand. — Edward Augustus Bowles
Open Door Quotes
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. — Prince Philip
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. — Douglas MacArthur
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.
If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car! — Prince
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside. — Julius Nyerere
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting. — Keith Richards
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox
As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows — Linus Torvalds
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon
Everything becomes a lesson when youre open to learn.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. — Herbert Hoover
Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world. — Max Lucado
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more — Bob Dylan
I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. — George Bernard Shaw
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. — Marcus Aurelius
When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention. — Nouman Ali Khan
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei
I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams
I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company. — Ida Tarbell
With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves. — Akira Toriyama
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings. — Jose Raul Capablanca
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. — Cornelia Funke
I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent. — Sherman Alexie
. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233) — Swami Satchidananda
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home. — Josh Lanyon
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page. — Daniel Hannan
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. — Lao Tzu
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting. — Pope John Paul II
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas. — Gary Paulsen
I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. — Rick Danko
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. — Steve Wozniak
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. — Carol Shields
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