#beg

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#began #children #found #i #influenced

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States. ↗

— John Poindexter

#applying #awareness #because #beginning #counterterrorism

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beginning #creation #doctrine #pay #science

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#any #back #beginning #compliment #confronts

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#arts #began #candle #definition #god

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#age #attention #beautiful #begins #ceases

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

— Elvis Presley

#bigger #crowds #difference #just #now

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving. ↗

— Adelaide Anne Procter

#alarmed #argue #ass #begin #certain

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not. ↗

— Alain Prost

#beginning #during #i #i always #know

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#am #bang #before #begin #come