Famous Quotes & Sayings

I find that I am much slower in the beginning of a book. I am thinking of the plot, of the characters and who they are, and where they are going. I often throw out a lot of the writing I start with, because the characters and plot improve as I write. Or perhaps I should say it is my hope they will improve as I write.

If China introduces all these more flexible measures, and capital decides it wants to leave China, then it makes it easier for the currency to go down. If the currency begins to weaken, you'll find quite a lot of people taking money out. It tends to be self- fulfilling.

I feel more confident in myself and with the system. I don't go running around like crazy at the beginning anymore.

Richard Thomas

I feel like we sold ourselves a wonderful future. This is just the beginning of a new page in and around the western edge of the panhandle. I think we will get the Joint Strike Fighter.

I didn't have a lot of the jerseys to begin with, but I probably had a dozen last week. I only have about four left.

I can tell that the boy I help is getting better. He is more comfortable and I push him with harder books to better himself. In the beginning he would not look at me and then we started talking about the dogs and he opened up. When we got finished with the first session, he said he wanted to come back again.

I can't discuss anything she's told me. But I think you have to look at the entire picture. You can't look at the end of a story and determine what the beginning and middle were.

Hines Ward

I can't even begin to tell you how do good this feels ... especially after how our season ended last year. Nobody believed in us except the guys in this locker room. All our hard work has paid off. We're going to the Super Bowl.

Johan Santana

I can tell you every game is going to count this season. You can not just wait until the end to do something. You have to start strong in the beginning and finish strong, too.

I can't imagine this thing begins and ends with Sanjay.

I can't predict what that value might be, but it is fantastically interesting to me to have a chance, maybe within my lifetime, for scientists to see up-close what those objects look like and to begin our reconnaissance of that region of space.

Tom Ridge

I can't imagine a better place to begin the renewal of America's purpose than the cradle of American democracy,

Julie Andrews

I found it hard to get close to my stepfather at first. He began giving me singing lessons when I was about 7 or 8 in an effort to create a bond between us.

Sathya Baba

If others must serve you, serve them first; love begets love; trust engenders trust.

Annie Proulx

I found myself wondering what a gay person in such a masculine-oriented society did -- whether they fled to Denver or toughed it out. I began thinking about homophobia. In fact, the thing that destroyed the relationship between the two characters was their own homophobia.

Chipper Jones

I have confidence in whoever goes out there. Even when Kolbie was struggling at the beginning of the season, I always felt like his last outing would be the one when he turned it around. It took him being demoted and he's figured it out. He's getting key outs. Reitsma will do the same.

Sven Eriksson

I have concerns about all of them, I would say, because we're in the middle of March and the season finishes for them at the beginning of May.

Kathleen Blanco

I have called for this special meeting to begin immediately the work of rebuilding our state and restoring our people,

Joseph Alsop

I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...

Seth McClung

I don't hurt. I don't wake up in the middle of the night hurting. ... Any time you're coming off an injury, you have to stay positive. And I knew one day it would all turn around for me, and hopefully this will be the beginning of a long time being healthy." ()

I don't have to pinch myself. I knew it was a good team from the beginning. It's just surprising to all of y'all.

I don't have classes on Friday, so my day begins as soon as I get out of class on Thursday at 4:15 p.m.. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but if I were to go somewhere it would probably be Atlanta.

I didn't let myself get down for not being here at the beginning of the year. You have to let the game come to you and wait for your opportunities. This is definitely a good start.

Ray Ozzie

I don't even think we have begun to scratch the surface.

Frank Robinson

I don't get the same feel. I don't get the same electricity, the same energy about the situation now that I did at the beginning of the year. That is missing out of the clubhouse.

Jason Robert Brown

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

I don't know what happened. I can't even begin to explain it. I wasn't pressing. I thought I was relaxed, but it kept popping out of my hands. I've never had a game like that.

I don't know. Things just happened. A lot of people can say it was the quarterback; a lot of people can say it was me; a lot of people can say it was the offense. I don't know. It just didn't go right. Point blank. It's a new beginning now. I really don't linger on the past. I want to look toward the future and do something good.

I don't know where to begin with that one. I'm just as perplexed as everyone in the building. I honestly don't know what happened. Crazy things happen.

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.

I cut out of work early today to catch the beginning of the game. But the girls are counting on me to be there tonight for practice.

Bob Edwards

I can do whatever I want to. I'm completely independent. NPR over the years began taking itself enormously seriously -- as it should. In the end I was so micromanaged that they were telling me how to pronounce syllables of words.

John Holmes

I am excited to begin a relationship with SFX. They have a track record of really helping golfers on-and-off the course. I am looking forward to the many opportunities they will offer me.