Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Cheney

We really didn't know until Sunday morning that Harry was probably going to be OK, that it looked like there hadn't been any serious damage to any vital organ. And that's when we began the process of notifying the press.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

Jim Riley

When our programs began succeeding, that's when he began complaining about us. I really do think it's a business competitive and a sibling competitive issue.

We were one and done (in the district) last year, and we wouldn't let these guys forget. We felt like once we got by the first game we had a shot to advance. Then things just began to fall into place.

Through the darkness I began to see a light;Radiating a sweet melody, like wind on a kite.

To keep it out is anti-education. ... You can't just tell children that they come from monkeys and to forget all about any other theory for how life began and the incredible design of the universe and the human body.

Kevin Barry

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it.

For the first time, China began to negotiate constructively, but it still has a significant way to go before we can reach a deal that the industry can support.

John le Carre

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

Jen Lancaster

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

Leslie Banks

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a daycare center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

Caleb Landry Jones

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

George Harrison

I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my head it was bound to come out.

I began to understand how we are built; we're built to be natural-born liars. Nature has fashioned us like nature has fashioned so many organisms.

David Livingstone

I began to understand how we are built; we're built to be natural-born liars, ... Nature has fashioned us like nature has fashioned so many organisms.

Joyce Banda

I began to think about those that were in my situation that were not able to walk out of an abusive marriage, or maybe those that did not know where to go, that were in a single headed marriage, or widows. I was thinking what it was I could do to reach out to them.

I began to see that this wasn't simply an odd man, an odd writer. What he discovered writing 'In Cold Blood' embodies what a lot of people go through. He struggled with who he was.

Jenny Holzer

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

Al Michaels

I began to realize more and more how much I was going to miss being with those people. That's my family, that's my broadcasting family.

Roald Dahl

I began to realise that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms, and they took their inventing very seriously.

Peter Shaffer

I began to read everything I could about Mozart, who I've always felt, I suppose, to be the greatest of all composers. I still think so.

I began tailoring my books to cater to one or another universe of readers. I found it incredibly boring; and frankly, it felt stultifying. I'd previously been in advertising. I felt if I was going to create something to fit a specific market, I might as well have stayed with advertising.

I began studying geography because I wanted to learn more about the world I live in.

Martha Stewart

I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties.

I began praying as soon as he hit the field.

I began playing the flute during the summer before my sixth grade year when I was 11 years old, and instantly fell in love with it.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

I began my career at Teledyne, where I worked on various navigation systems, including Inertial, Doppler radar, and other conventional radio navigation systems.

Ian Ziering

I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

Gore Vidal

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

Clint Walker

I began having problems with Warner Bros. They were letting other people do films, and I wasn't doing many, so I walked out for a while.

I began fighting corruption as a young law student and people laughed at me.

Jamie Wyeth

I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.