In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
John Leonard

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Helen Fielding

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Robert Walpole

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.
Marvin Olasky

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.
Steve Lacy

It starts with campaign finance reform.
Zack Space

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
Emily Watson

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
Tom Wopat

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
John Wooden

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.
David Soul

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B. B. King

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
Sam Levenson

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
John Hersey

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Lucy Larcom

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
Michael Nesmith

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emile M. Cioran

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
Michael Chabon