I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn - and only from us.

It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

When our assists lead to baskets, that's us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

I strive to be positive. I begin every day asking myself what I can do to make this a positive day.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

My favourite scent... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell you.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.

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