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Beginning Quotes


"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."


"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."


"But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire."



"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."


"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."


"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."


"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."


"I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing."


"Conflict is the beginning of consciousness."


"Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us."


"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."


"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve."


"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings."


"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."


"Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine."


"Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now."


"The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure."


"My gay audience has been with me from the beginning."


"Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end."


"Only beginning to present itself over the horizon."


"Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation."



"I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years."


"Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well."


"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."


"All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning."


"But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide."


"I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked."


"Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications."


"Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches."


"It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this."


"We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning."


"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."


"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."


"After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect."
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