Quotes about start
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“This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.”

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Variant: My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

Hell, Funny

“You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

People, World

“She took me to a mall yesterday"' Lachlain sounded as if he'd just stifled a shudder. "And she pointed to a boy and said, 'I think I want one.' So naturally, I start thinking, But she meant a bairn—”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Boy, Nature, Thinking

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

Daniel Wallace (1959) American author

Love, Life, Time

“Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Drawing

“If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Asfixia

Hell, Thinking

“She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

Thinking

“If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.”

Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

People

“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

People, World, Idea, Passion

“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Men, War, Fight

“I don’t know,” Call said. He was starting to worry that there weren’t any good guys. Just people with longer or shorter Evil Overlord lists.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: The Copper Gauntlet

People, Guy, Evil

“Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: True Confessions

“All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.”

Jon McGregor book If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Understanding, Business

“She was afraid you'd freak out? Start seeing demons in the White House?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 311
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Housing

“The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Variant: Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back to the way they were. If one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Truth, Sadness, Way

“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

People

“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 nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.”

Enid Blyton book Five Go Off in a Caravan

Source: Five Go Off in a Caravan

Love, Age, Sister, Summer

“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Personality

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Truth

“It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.”

Richard Bach book Nothing by Chance

Source: Nothing by Chance

World, Success

“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor

Understanding

“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Knowledge

“Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

God

“If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Heart

“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Moving On

“Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

People, Idea

“It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start”

Ron Rash book Serena

Source: Serena

World, Tear, Baby

“To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Life

“It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).”

Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer

Source: You Oughta Know By Now

Personality

“If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.”

Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur

Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey: or, Africa for the Africans‎ (Routledge, 1967), P. 10. ISBN 0714611433.

Life, Confidence

“Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Drawing

“He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

God, Silence

“You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either."
Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

“If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining”

Max Brooks book The Zombie Survival Guide

Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Thinking

“He gave my hand a final shake. “Okay, Kemp,” he said with a grin. “Thanks a lot – you came through like a champ.” “Hell,” I said, starting the engine. “We’re all champs when we’re drunk.”

Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

Hell

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Life, Happiness, Books, School

“one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't need a license to start a family. Two people have sex and BAM! Perfectly innocent kid is born whose life will be screwed up by her parents forever.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

Life, People, World, Family

“But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Source: Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

Dreams, Question

“Speaking of Sonya… I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said."

"Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?"

"Don't start, Sage," he warned.(p 211)”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Thinking, Wolf

“I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

“Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.”

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter

Feeling

“I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum

Secret, Feeling, Intelligence

“First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Defiance

“Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Women, Men

“I love you,” he said fiercely. “ ’Tis not true that I kept a part of my heart locked away from you. You own all of it, lass. You’ve always owned it. I didn’t give it to you. You took it from the very start.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Never Love a Highlander

Love, Heart, Parting

“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”

Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven

Source: Pigs in Heaven

Money, People, Thinking, Time

“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Revenge

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”

Celeste Ng book Little Fires Everywhere

Source: Little Fires Everywhere

People, Way

“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”

Ian McEwan book Saturday

Source: Saturday

Life, Personality

“Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only…”

Gregory Maguire Out of Oz

Source: Out of Oz

“To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Source: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey

Way

“Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

Guy, Reality

“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 success.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Positive Thinking Every Day : An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year (1993), "April 13"
Earlier variant: People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. And those who have learned to have a realistic, nonegotistical belief in themselves, who possess a deep and sound self-confidence, are assets to mankind, too, for they transmit their dynamic quality to those lacking it.
‪You Can If You Think You Can‬ (1987), p. 84

People, Secret, Thinking, Success

“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”

Muriel Spark book Memento Mori

Source: Memento Mori

People

“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Variant: It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
Source: Nausea (1938)
Context: I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

Love, Thinking

“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.”

Lewis Buzbee (1957) American writer

Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

Books, Age, Reading

“I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.”

Joseph Delaney book The Spook's Mistake

Source: The Spook's Mistake

Tear, Parting

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Source: Handle with Care

Travel