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Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.