- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beginning Quotes
Where things actually start, according to the people who started them.
One of the more striking beginning quotes here comes from a composer who rejects the idea of a beginning or end at all, treating a body of work as one continuous piece. The Hope collection covers a related sense of looking forward.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some projects feel like the stars are aligning for them from the very beginning.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character comedy, they haven't learned the characters yet.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
- Special
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020