Starting Quotes

1743 Starting quotes by 1426 unique authors

Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired.… — Robert Kiyosaki
She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed… — Rachel Caine
How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say… — Ally Carter
It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting… — Sara Shepard
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. — Ralph Ellison
It was starting to smell really good in here. And if I liked what it smelled like, then they were liking what they were smelling,… — Kim Harrison
I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does. — David Levithan
As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the… — Wendelin Van Draanen
We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something. — David Levithan
I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the… — William Faulkner
I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel… — Iris Murdoch
When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page.… — Cesare Pavese
Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your… — Jonathan Tropper
It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some… — Jack Gantos
What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should… — Thomas Hardy
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two. — Libba Bray
There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking… — Jodi Picoult
Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall. "Never in my… — Rick Riordan
Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed… — Rick Riordan
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and… — Ernest Hemingway
At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors… — Frances Hardinge
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces,… — Robin Sloan
You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton.” Nick didn’t blink. “Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job. — Julie James
I'm stupid," Leo mumbled. "Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite." He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward… — Rick Riordan

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