#begin

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. ↗

— Barack Obama

#begun #better #bit #blood #children

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#am #art #arts #because #been

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#atomic bomb #begin #bomb #end #engineers

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history. ↗

— Eckhard Pfeiffer

#either #end #history #making #today

I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#before #begin #fake #going #happen

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

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. ↗

— Mark Caine

#any #anyone #beginning #favor #friend

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creative #crop #hard #harvest #how

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#conversation #expect #his #i #i do