What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
Mary Oliver

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Doris Day

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Karl Kraus

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
William Barclay

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
Michael Caine

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
Danielle Steel

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
Robert Burns

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
Jesse Ventura