Famous Quotes & Sayings

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin

The reality is, Bakersfield is just at the beginning of its growth pattern.

The real estate market has been an underlying source of support for private consumption. As that market begins to slow and weaken, that would have an impact on private consumption.

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.

Kevin Henkes

When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

Kevin Henkes

I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.

Kathy Mattea

I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.

John Grogan

I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.

Jane Pauley

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

We had been saying that I-73 was going to end in South Carolina, but we turned that around, and said no, it's going to begin in South Carolina.

When I begin to sing, I realised I am the only one in the family that has something to earn a little money, and so I found myself being a singer.

Abraham Maslow

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Ed McMahon

When the new home construction and everything does begin in New Orleans, it is going to be tight and it will have a long term effect.

Tom Stoppard

My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.