It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien

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

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
Darrell Royal

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
Calvin Klein

I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.
Steve Irwin

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.
Tyra Banks

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.
Jesse James

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
Larry David

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
Larry David

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.
Shia LaBeouf

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
Jay London

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
David Bowie

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Wanda Sykes

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
Jo Brand

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
Jack Paar

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
Neil Young

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
Mickey Rourke

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
Cat Stevens

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
Jeffrey Sachs