#began

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#before #began #civilization #effects #especially

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#adult #became #began #boy #dreamed

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy. ↗

— John Cleese

#amount #become #began #driven #edgy

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#appear #began #english #equivalent #except

Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#affirming #age #began #curious #did

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#began #effort #end #fellow #fellow students

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. ↗

— James Cronin

#chicago #education #entered #graduate #graduate student

When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays. ↗

— James Cronin

#decays #discovered #electronic #experiments #i

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. ↗

— Robert Graves

#call #finance #hold #human #human love

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#came #children #fiction #i #later