Beginning Quotes

• Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Done
  • History
  • Beginning

• Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.

  

  Colin Angle
  • Money
  • Beginning

• Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

  

  Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• Sunday is like this entertainment scrum for me, because I've only got a day, one day of fun. So I want to have brunch, and I want to see a movie, and I want to watch 'Game of Thrones,' and I'm trying to watch 'The Sopranos' from the beginning, and I want to play four hours of video games. So, it's, like, as regimented as my work life.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Question
  • Beginning

• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • People
  • Bad
  • Universe

• If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Beginning

• Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Beginning
  • Birthday
  • Decide

• I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• There is a miracle in every new beginning.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Beginning
  • Miracle

• The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Up
  • American
  • Beginning

• Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Real
  • Training
  • Exercise

• You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • Up
  • Beginning

• Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

  

  Eric S. Raymond
  • Different
  • Beginning

• Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

  

  Plato
  • Beginning
  • Affection
  • Philosopher

• Before 'Fallen,' I'd written love stories and more love stories. I'd fallen in love with love stories - but they were also beginning to feel just a little bit too insular, too small.

  

  Lauren Kate
  • Small
  • Beginning

• We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know?

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Art
  • Alone
  • Beginning

• Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: a biosystem with a limited capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the consequence is future shock.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • Future
  • Beginning

• I know the songs that Sly wrote still have the meaning for those that are living today that weren't even around when we started playing before, in the beginning. His lyrics, to me, if you listen to them, they can form a lifestyle that will leave you a happier person, a better person on this planet. It's just lyrics to live by.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Live
  • Today
  • Lyrics

• Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Science
  • Blue
  • Logic

• It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, "Let us make man". It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, "Let us save man".

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creation

• That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Book
  • Beginning

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