#start

What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#anymore #called #definitely #extreme #god

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. ↗

— Courtney Love

#band #bought #comedy #everybody #i

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. ↗

— James Lovelock

#any #around #been #come #evolution

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#closest #dying #eight #friends #getting

I started as a print reporter. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#print #reporter #started

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#doing #i #interested #journalism #maybe

People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#age #amount #because #certain #certain time

I like starting. It's pretty cool. ↗

— Al Leiter

#i #like #pretty #starting

I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no. ↗

— Al Leiter

#body #certain #few #game #i

My son, he is the reason I got involved. It's been a joy to be around him and teach him the stuff that I know, and to the other kids as well. When he started playing I wanted to be involved in his hockey career. It's a lot of fun for both of us. ↗

— Mario Lemeiux

#been #both #career #fun #got