Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Glass

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers.

We want to catch the child at the beginning of the decline.

Liz Smith

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

What we're facing right now is the beginnings of a brand new marketplace.

What we're beginning to see is people traveling great distances to get pseudoephedrine.

There is considerable value in identifying people who are beginning to show the first signs and this might be one way of doing that.

There is beginning to be evidence that high energy prices are starting to spill over into the rest of the economy.

Casey Fossum

When I did get the call to start, it took about three games for me to build my innings up. Now, I can prepare myself to start, condition myself properly, space my throwing out, build up from the beginning this year and be ready to start. I think it's going to help me in the long run.

John Edgar Wideman

When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that's not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.

We use what people said about us at the beginning of the season as motivation. We're starting to realize how good we can be.

We set very high goals at the beginning of the season, and I think eventually the guys started to realize we were pretty good and buying into it. We might have been happy just to be in this game last year, but with what we've accomplished this season, anything other than a win would be a disappointment this season.

Ben Wallace

We set out from the beginning of the season to try and win every game. It's not about who we're playing, it's about going out there and taking care of our business.

We set out at the beginning of the season to take the next step this year. So I know that in their minds that's their goal, to go at least one step further than we went last year. I think that would be outstanding for us to be able to do.

We set high goals at the beginning of the year. But we can't dwell too long on the victory. We celebrate and move on (to the next race).

The people of New Orleans are a people of faith, and we can begin to explore the possibilities, ... a simple way of life, ... less consumer driven.

I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the surface-level knowledge about Zelda doesn't begin to describe the person that she really is. You know, I had come to the project with the idea that she was, you know, just F. Scott Fitzgerald's crazy, disruptive wife.

Tom Tancredo

If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem.

Thomas Goodwin

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.

Stephen Cambone

Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future.

Ashwin Sanghi

Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.

The process will begin when the season begins. This is an orientation camp, it's not a tryout camp that we're having.

Tove Jansson

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.

The population of (Maine) is such that there are not a whole lot of kids out there to begin with. Timing is the key thing. We're fortunate that we have some real elite ones here now. Both Greg and Derek have had fabulous careers.

There are some people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in a state of continuous change since the beginning of time. Or maybe they just want their names etched nicely in the history of mankind.

We declared it an emergency, because we can't pay it back by the end of the year. So we have six months past the beginning of the year to pay it back. We'll pay it back by March, probably, but we do have until June.

Jeff Nelson

We decided not to go this year because it was just too close to district. The relays are this weekend and district begins on Tuesday and that's just not enough turn around time to recover.

We decided at the beginning of the week to play one game at a time, but we came to win three.

David Vyborny

We're playing different from the beginning of the season. If we would go down a few goals then we wouldn't come back. Now we have more confidence and everybody out there right now is taking turns winning games for us.

We've been in a narrow range all day with light buying, but this is to be expected at the beginning of the new year.

We really got out a little slower to begin with. We then got going and pushed the tempo a little harder than we usually do. We got in a groove and really pulled away in the third." ()

We're a better defense than we were at the beginning of the year, and that's because we've got so many young players learning a new system ( Ted Cottrell 's) and so many young players playing at this level for the first time. I don't know what everybody else would call it. I'd call it progress.