When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began…

See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say…

— Nicholas Sparks

“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end…

— Stephen King

“Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view.…

— Manal al-Sharif

I have never doubted that I would succeed from the moment I first began playing football.

— Demba Ba

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took…

— Tom Curren

“When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”

— Ty Cobb

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

— Ty Cobb

In 1956, I began playing in a band with Boz Scaggs.

— Steve Miller

I began playing football on the streets.

— Gabriel Jesus

Asbury Park's a special place for me. It's where I really began playing.

— Clarence Clemons

Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost…

— Hikaru Nakamura

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

— Vanessa Mae

A lot has changed in music since I began playing in 1987.

— John Popper

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

— Tracy Austin

I began playing at the age of six, but at that point, I had little idea of cricket; forget the talent part. It's around…

— Prithvi Shaw