Began Quotes · Page 7

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write…

— Nicholson Baker

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

“The rattler began to coil. Soon it would realize that it could not strike at such a distance, and would attempt to…

— Dean Koontz

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

— John Williams

It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]

— Cornelius Gallus

I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.

— James Nesbitt

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

— Leonard Cohen

I always felt journalists had a very clear idea of what they wanted to write about me before the interview began.

— Ronald Frame

“I am forced to render some order to the events of my life, to say it began here, and then because of…

— Abraham Verghese

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

— Richard Jefferies

I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids,…

— Paul Engle

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and…

— Elliott Abrams

I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation…

— Min Kao

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,…

— Karl Marlantes

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has…

— P. J. O'Rourke

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew…

— Vesta Williams

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the…

— Rick Perlstein

I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11…

— Paul Watson

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages.…

— Adele Exarchopoulos

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an…

— Michael Behe

I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal…

— Cherie Lunghi

The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was…

— Clive Davis

I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown,…

— Dav Pilkey

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

— George Woodcock

My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni.'

— Danielle de Niese

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

— James Gleick

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

— John Ortberg

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

— George Murray

I know it's over and it never really began, but in my heart.. It was so real.

— I'mPossible

“From the moment that you opened your eyes and took your first breath your story began.”

— Nate Green

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go…

— Gale Harold

I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit…

— Andrew Pyper

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began.

— David Bohm

When I began my career, I used to say I was a Bollywood heroine.

— Sameera Reddy

“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.”

— Richard Peck

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

— John Van Hamersveld

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

— Tom Hanks

“He was mine, I was his, and Preston was ours. That’s where it began; and that’s where it ended for now.”

— Andrea Smith

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

— Adam Goldberg