They Start Quotes
278 They Start quotes by 225 unique authors
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Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight…
— Tina Fey
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
— Alain de Botton
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In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. “The moment they start…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
— Poppy Z. Brite
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You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super…
— Haruki Murakami
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I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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. . . people use tricks to get you to think the way they do or take away something you have that they want. One…
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't…
— Ellen Wittlinger
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are…
— John Cage
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She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive,…
— Aidan Chambers
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I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so…
— Enid Blyton
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And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion,…
— J.A. Redmerski
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what…
— Carson McCullers
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If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe…
— David Levithan
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Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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So many stories are determined before they start.
— Lionel Shriver
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Only children believe they're capable of everything. They're trusting and fearless; they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children…
— Paulo Coelho
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Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things…
— Meg Rosoff
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Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all…
— John Green
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Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are…
— Ray Romano
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This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to…
— Marilyn Monroe
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The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
— Willie Stargell
Who Wrote These They Start Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 278 They Start Quotes, led by these top contributors: