#starts

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#becomes #bits #canvas #dabbling #direction

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. ↗

— Maria Callas

#becomes #before #begins #come #curtain

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#chronic #citizen #crack #diligence #disease

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#desire #list #lose #new #pounds

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#dice #emerson #enough #everything #fact

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#gratify #insolent #patriot #refusing #starts

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, "Poor thing." I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#better #breakdown #comfort #comforted #cry

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart. ↗

— Gloria Grahame

#always #apart #better #body #fall

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour. ↗

— Matt Groening

#comic strip #find #generally #good #good mood

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#awareness #being #committed #course #different