And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
~By Russell Simmons ~
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
~By Whitney Houston ~
I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.
~By Peter Jennings ~
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
~By Susan George ~
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
~By John Heywood ~
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
~By Marguerite Young ~
That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
~By Stephen Rea ~
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
~By Shane West ~
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
~By Angela Merkel ~
At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
~By Annette Funicello ~
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
~By Anne Sullivan ~
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
~By Edward Whymper ~
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
~By Dean Inge ~
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
~By Lactantius ~
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
~By M. Esther Harding ~
My son Barry, of course, has been on from the beginning. And his son Shane is playing now a med student regularly on the show. And at one point or another, I've had all four of his kids on the show.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
~By Jack Kilby ~
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
~By George Lucas ~
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
~By Pablo Casals ~
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
~By John Ruskin ~
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
~By Lauren Bacall ~
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
~By Pat Buckley ~
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
~By Lord Byron ~
You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
~By Mark Caine ~
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
~By Matt Groening ~
I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.
~By Ben Crenshaw ~
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.
~By Harry Vardon ~
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
~By Ray Kurzweil ~
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
~By Andre Gide ~
We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.
~By Reed Hastings ~
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
~By Jean Stapleton ~
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
~By Tina Turner ~
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
~By Lance Burton ~
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.
~By Norman Lear ~
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
~By Nathan Deal ~
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
~By Democritus ~
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
~By Ellen DeGeneres ~
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
~By Bette Davis ~
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
~By Bill Kurtis ~
For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
~By John Hench ~
What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.
~By Donna Shalala ~
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
~By Jean Piaget ~
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
~By Alfred Eisenstaedt ~
You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
~By Young Buck ~
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
~By Sherwood Anderson ~
Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
~By Origen ~
At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.
~By Paul Pierce ~
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
~By Origen ~
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
~By Henri Bergson ~
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
~By Eda J. Le Shan ~
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
~By Camille Pissarro ~
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
~By Eric S. Raymond ~
Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning.
~By John Walters ~
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
~By Og Mandino ~
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
~By Alan Hovhaness ~
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.
~By Mario Monti ~
I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.
~By Jonathan Krohn ~
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
~By Arundhati Roy ~
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
~By Jack Kilby ~
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
~By George Gurdjieff ~
I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.
~By Sharon Stone ~
I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.
~By Amy Irving ~
To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
~By George William Norris ~
In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
From the end spring new beginnings.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?
~By Clifford Longley ~
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'
~By Arthur H. Compton ~
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
~By Earle Brown ~
They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.
~By Della Reese ~
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
~By Joan Miro ~
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
~By Walter Lang ~
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