Opened

Famous quotes containing the word opened:

    “When man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”
    —Ted Sherdeman. Gordon Douglas. Dr. Medford (Edmund Gwenn)

    “The season developed and matured. Another year’s installment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches, and such ephemeral creatures, took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles. Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)