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John Coltrane quote: "I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions..."
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. John Coltrane
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and... Larry Niven
The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him. Ernest Hemingway
Jodi Picoult quote: "If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite..."
If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it. Jodi Picoult
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier. Mark Twain
John Updike quote: "The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep..."
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. John Updike
Rick Warren quote: "The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we..."
The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn. Rick Warren
Until you put these things to right, you're not entitled to boast of the justice meted out to thieves, for it's a justice more specious than real or social desirable. You allow these people to be brought up in the worst possible way, and systematically corrupted from their earliest years. Finally, when they grow up and commit the crimes that they were obviously destined to commit, ever since they were children, you start punishing them. In other words, you create thieves, and then punish them... Thomas More
Julia Child quote: "Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need."
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. Julia Child
Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart. Rumi
The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want. Brian Tracy
Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders. Milan Kundera
Anne Lamott quote: "Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts...."
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Anne Lamott
Howard Barker quote: "It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and..."
It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand. Howard Barker
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. Georgia O'Keeffe

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