Open Book Quotes

• The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Astrology, Heaven

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• My career is an open book, but my life is not.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Book, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Book, Humble, Illusions Of Grandeur

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• To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Book, Eye

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

  Blake Shelton

  Book, Has Beens

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• A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look

  Robert Frost

  Book, Looks, Breeze

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.496, Harvard University Press

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• I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

  Ice T

  Book, Kind, None Of Your Business

  "Ice-T and Coco Preview Their New Talk Show (and Maybe Stir Up a Few Daytime Feuds Along the Way)". Interview with Lanford Beard, people.com. July 27, 2015.

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• People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

  Phil McGraw

  Book, People, Should

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• It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

  Drew Barrymore

  Book, Thinking, People

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• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Writing, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Life, Book, Advice

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• Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

  Betsy Landin

  Dream, Book, Fall

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• . . . 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

  Book, Daily Activities, Cooking

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

  A. J. McLean

  Book, Trying

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• In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Grace, Ink

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• You cannot open a book without learning something.

  Confucius

  Educational, Book, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

  Michael Moriarty

  Book, Knows

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• In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  "Coupling On Camera and Off; Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg Talk About 'My Wife Is an Actress'". Interview with Guy V. Cimbalo, www.indiewire.com. July 16, 2002.

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• I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, People, Ease

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• I'm a pretty open book.

  Emily VanCamp

  Book

  "Q&A: Emily VanCamp Talks 'Revenge,' Her Billboard Shock & Zombies". Access Hollywood Interview, www.accesshollywood.com. September 21, 2011.

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• 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

  Book, Heart, Air

  Song: Words Weren't Made for Cowards, Album: Warpaint

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• 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

  Book, Eye, Soul

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• My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.

  Rod Stewart

  Book, Knows, Has Beens

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• Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Book, Childhood

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• You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

  Rita Coolidge

  Book, Knows

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