Started Quotes
6171 quotes by 4232 authors
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That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And…
— Amy Tan
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He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. “You’re black.†“I prefer canine-American,†said Total.
— James Patterson
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You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in…
— Annie Dillard
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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
— Rohinton Mistry
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And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her…
— Gaston Leroux
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A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about…
— William Stafford
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I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!
— Jan Karon
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one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
— Jean Cocteau
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After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend…
— Karen Armstrong
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You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that…
— Henry Ford
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Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from…
— Brandon Mull
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I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be…
— Markus Zusak
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I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem…
— Sándor Márai
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Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.
— Rick Riordan
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When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response…
— Kelley Armstrong
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We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal
— D. J. MacHale
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She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate…
— Cassandra Clare
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That buy is totally cracked out," Vic said one day, as we walked past Balthazar in the great hall. I don't think he's on alything."…
— Claudia Gray
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So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms .…
— Ray Bradbury
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