All Quotes

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
‐‐ Annette Funicello

At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
‐‐ Kami Garcia

At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.
‐‐ Bill Hader

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.
‐‐ Jai Rodriguez

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
‐‐ Martina McBride

At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.
‐‐ Gail Collins

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
‐‐ Cherie Lunghi

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.
‐‐ Mario Testino

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.
‐‐ Amy Tan

At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.
‐‐ Florence Welch

At the beginning of my career, it was really difficult for my family to understand what I was working on, but they supported me anyway and gave me the best advice, which was to always be myself.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.
‐‐ Maurice Allais

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
‐‐ Brian Eno

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil.
‐‐ Michael Gove

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
‐‐ Hesiod

At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.
‐‐ Audrina Patridge

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
‐‐ Li Peng

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
‐‐ Adolf Loos

At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.
‐‐ Paul Pierce

At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.
‐‐ Toussaint Louverture

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
‐‐ Gail Simmons

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.
‐‐ Midge Ure

At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.
‐‐ Sean Hayes

At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.'
‐‐ Pete Hamill

At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now.
‐‐ Gillian Anderson

At the beginning, there was this competitive vibe, like, 'Oh, we've got to compete for this audience.' But then, over the next few years afterwards, everyone on YouTube realized the more we work together, the more we collaborate, it just benefits everyone. It just became a really friendly community.
‐‐ Anthony Padilla

At the beginning, we didn't have the money to pay big names, which is how looking for new faces began a tradition that still continues 30 years into the Guess history. It's been interesting to follow their careers after a Guess shoot, for both photographers and models, because the exposure around the world becomes so huge.
‐‐ Paul Marciano

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

At the beginning, when you don't look so pregnant, I think it's all about dressing boyish, with jackets and loose layers.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni

At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
‐‐ Cameron Russell

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
‐‐ Anita Roddick

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
‐‐ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.
‐‐ Harvey V. Fineberg

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.
‐‐ Mark Z. Danielewski

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.
‐‐ Fuzzy Zoeller

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
‐‐ Betty Comden

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

At the center of President Obama's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It's supposed be filled by a 'Sunni ground force,' but after more than a year of effort, it's still not there. Unless this gap is filled, Obama's plan won't work.
‐‐ David Ignatius

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
‐‐ Huston Smith