I Begin Quotes

229 I Begin quotes by 197 unique authors

From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves… — Anais Nin
When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad. — Tom Bissell
I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at… — Adolf Hitler
I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But… — Fernando Pessoa
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air.… — Yann Martel
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret… — Mary Doria Russell
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a… — Jeanette Winterson
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second. — Laurence Sterne
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My… — Charles Bukowski
I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones.… — Elias Canetti
We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.… — Margaret Atwood
Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I… — Zadie Smith
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the… — Amy Hempel
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles… — Ellis Peters
Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business — Christopher Pike
Today.....I begin a new life". — Og Mandino
No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like… — Tamora Pierce
But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time.… — Virginia Woolf
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. — Virginia Woolf
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek… — Anais Nin
This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing… — Jonathan Franzen

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