Quotes of: Began Keyword

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.

Gabriel Lippmann

When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.

Jonathan Haidt

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

Andrew Taylor Still

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Ashamed, shrugging a little, and then shivering, he took his bags and went out. The cold of the air seemed to lift him bodily. The moon was in the sky. On the slope he began to run, he could not help it. Just as he reached the road, where his car see...

The Collected Stories

And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy reclining body, draped in its black gown, heaved to and fro. His knees drew themselves up to his chin. His arms dangled over the sides of the chai...

Gormenghast

At five-thirty the rain began to fall in great, heavy drops which bounced off the pavement before they spread out into black spots. At the same time thunder rumbled from the direction of Charenton and an eddy of wind lifted the dust, carried away the...

L'Enterrement de Monsieur Bouvet

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed...

Short Shorts

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

The Dunciad

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Deathless

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The Great Gatsby

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

The God Species

As the fireworks began to illuminate the sky above them, Blake and Veronica made love for the first time on Hideaway Hill.

Hideaway Hill

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Bluebeard's Egg

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Andrew Wyeth

'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

Chris Van Allsburg

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

The Jewel in the Crown

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

we are unable to discount the hypotheses that the world began three years ago.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.

The Nightlife: Las Vegas