To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can’t shut them up.

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

It’s amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again – all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that’s fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was...

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see...

You start as an audience member and create a world you’re interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

Every time I start the next movie, it’s as exciting as the first time.

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, ‘Okay, this is something I really want to do.’

There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news. No one is acting as if we were in a crisis. Even most climate scientists or green politicians keep on flying around the world, eating...

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element....

We can’t start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

We will not have humanoid androids. It’s interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot...

They wanted to start recording rock ‘n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

In the state of Wisconsin it’s mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I’m just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. ‘What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What’s...

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it’s always a lovely way to start a new season.

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and...

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that’s when you know you’re way too close to something that you don’t want to be near.

I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.

Gavin’s Law: Live to start. Start to live.

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show...

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated...

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the...

I don’t know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you...

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

A lot of us think we’re invincible… but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn’t have any transportation. We couldn’t drive the car. He wouldn’t even let us start the...

Once I start reading something, I can’t stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

I’ve never been a fast reader. I’m fickle; I don’t finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.

For the most part, I’ve sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies.

That’s really one of the things I love about video games. It’s a whole new world every time you start.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

I’ve written some happy songs but I can’t ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up.

If you’re used to being a maverick, then people don’t get surprised when you start acting strangely.

The first time I met Leo Messi, I didn’t know who he was, only that I couldn’t believe the boots he was wearing. But he is like a brother to me. It was at the...

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.