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Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were… — Democritus
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the… — Louis Sachar
It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to… — Gillian Flynn
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood… — Henry David Thoreau
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this… — Lionel Blue
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly… — Harry S. Truman
Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little… — William Shakespeare
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land. — Joanna Southcott
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. — Gloria Swanson
Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. ...Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about… — Deepak Chopra
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. — Jonathan Coe
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that… — Russell Kirk
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle… — Antonino Zichichi
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world… — Robert M. Pirsig
It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the… — John Calvin
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. — Henry David Thoreau
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience — Erich Fromm
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on… — Henry Flynt
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla. — Twyla Tharp
Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before… — Louise Erdrich
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably… — Virginia Woolf
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get… — Wilkie Collins
I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. — Gene Tierney

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