Famous Quotes & Sayings

In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.

I had decided to buy in on the complete good-eating-habit program, and after surgery, I began losing one-half pound to a pound per day,

Alan Hovhaness

I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.

Clearly, when she began selling these on eBay to us, she knew it was illegal.

His life and accomplishments continue to inspire Rensselaer students, Rensselaer faculty, Rensselaer staff and the entire Rensselaer family. And we are very honored to have the recognition for him in proximity to the campus where he began is illustrious career.

Anthony Marra

Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

David Nelson

But we also began to see these human marks, like the graffiti. The human markings were something that was definitely a record of history and 200 years from now the value of that would be immense.

Serena Williams

Honestly, I began to think, 'OK, well, I'm not going to go for the lines, I'm not going to go for my shots.

Jack Baker

He said on the House floor that he was never a Populist, never a Prohibitionist, and that people were mistaken to think that. And he began to support the bills the (oil) monopolies wanted. The only thing that offset the change was that he was no longer involved because he had lost interest.

I regret what began as a friendship came to include this conduct,

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

I hit some shots and then the outside game began clicking. They really had to respect our outside shooters, and it really opened it up inside for me.

I really got into officiating to try and get things organized. I went to the state (officials) organization and began to put together a directory of officials, especially at the junior-high level. I think it gave a lot of new people a resource in how to get officials and how to get involved.

Graham Nash

I plowed myself into listening to about 98% of everything that was ever recorded in the past 20-odd years-I began to fall back in love with why I love David and Steven in the first place. It put us back in touch with what our strengths were, and it was a thrilling process.

Joseph Bruchac

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

Roger McGuinn

I didn't really enjoy reading until I married my wife and we began reading the Bible out loud to each other every day. I enjoy reading now, and there is a whole world of books out there to explore.

Edward Hirsch

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

Paula Zahn

began to transform her public persona from the warm, fun-loving 'Queen of nice' to a self-proclaimed '(expletive)'.

Maajid Nawaz

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

Eddie Floyd

Hey, we thought it was kinda neat, ... It was sort of an exchange thing, the way I felt. You know, with guys from England coming to the U.S. and then we began to go over there.

The military rule that began with the Six-Day War ends today. I hope that the departure of our forces from the Gaza Strip symbolizes the beginning of a period of tranquillity.

Their size, quickness and athleticism began to tell in the fourth quarter.

Matt Berninger

At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.

C. S. Lewis

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

Robert Graves

What we now call ''finance'' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

Publilius Syrus

A friendship that can end never really began

After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.

So we started singing, and eventually we began to think we had something special. I thought we could sing as well as The Golden Gate Quartet, and if they could go out in the world and do it, well, so could we.

We went to a modified schedule with Jaws in September, and that means it's open for nighttime events and busier seasons, like the holidays. But shortly after that, our guests began to tell us they missed the attraction, and we realized Jaws is an important part of the Universal experience.

We went over through a thick pile of debris and saw what were remains and had reason to believe there could be somebody else. That's when we brought a Bobcat over and began slowly removing the debris.

Gloria Naylor

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.