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 tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
~By Aristotle ~
The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.
~By Peter Bart ~
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
~By Harvey Korman ~
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 ~
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs.
~By David Coverdale ~
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.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
~By Andrew Eldritch ~
You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
~By Brian P. Cleary ~
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
~By Hal Borland ~
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.
~By Albert Reynolds ~
So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
~By Alex Cox ~
The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
~By David Lloyd ~
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
~By Ian Hamilton Finlay ~
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
~By Anne Tyler ~
But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.
~By Joel Hodgson ~
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
~By Jean Piaget ~
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
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 ~
I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
~By Hesiod ~
Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along.
~By David Keene ~
I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
~By Spike Lee ~
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 ~
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
~By Thomas Mann ~
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
~By Florence Nightingale ~
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
~By Jerry Only ~
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
~By Jack Vance ~
In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.
~By Bobby Brown ~
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 ~
This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.
~By Michael Behe ~
I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
~By Dave Brubeck ~
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
~By Marsilio Ficino ~
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
~By Henrietta Szold ~
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
~By Nicholson Baker ~
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
~By A. E. van Vogt ~
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
~By Jean-Luc Godard ~
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
~By Nina Simone ~
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
~By Anne Sullivan ~
From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
~By Bille August ~
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
~By Lars von Trier ~
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
~By Luc Ferrari ~
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
~By John Galsworthy ~
This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
~By Placido Domingo ~
Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
~By Roy Ayers ~
In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
~By Ayumi Hamasaki ~
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 ~
One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.
~By Roald Hoffmann ~
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
~By Herodotus ~
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.
~By Sumner Redstone ~
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
~By Frank Auerbach ~
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
~By Indira Gandhi ~
Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.
~By Marge Schott ~
We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
~By Lynda Barry ~
I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.
~By Eric Cantor ~
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
~By Angela Carter ~
The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
~By Menander ~
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
~By Will Cuppy ~
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
In the beginning, Barry and I couldn't decide if we were going got go forward with the name of the Bee Gees or just as Barry and Robin. Now we've decided to continue as the Bee Gees because we feel we can, and Maurice would have wanted it.
~By Robin Gibb ~
Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
~By Beck ~
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
~By Mason Cooley ~
From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.
~By Robert Casey ~
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
~By Philip Schaff ~
The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
~By Aristotle ~
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 ~
I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
~By Miguel de Icaza ~
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
~By Jeff Tweedy ~
In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
~By Eric S. Raymond ~
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
~By Demosthenes ~
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
~By Sally Kellerman ~
It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.
~By Robert Walpole ~
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
~By Federico Fellini ~
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