#beginning

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bat #beginnings #form #hand #i

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. ↗

— Alice Walker

#beginning #color #descendants #done #in the beginning

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite. ↗

— Murray Walker

#exactly #now #only #opposite #race

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#complicated #difficult #most #part #process

...and in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#endings #life #life

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring. ↗

— Truman Capote

#beginning #seasons #spring #spring

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#beginning #career #career choice #choice #had

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. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#cruel #degrees #despair #differing #doubt

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. ↗

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#desire #plot #prompting

I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does. ↗

— Bonnie Hunt

#continue #does #end #feeling #her