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Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Zig Ziglar

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

John Dewey

Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.

John Lennon

It's not how you start, it's how you finish, I guess. It's a great day.

Doug Armstrong

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Dolly Parton

My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

Nikola Tesla

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Robert Byrne

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Wayne Dyer

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

J. K. Rowling

Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Kin Hubbard

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.

Kin Hubbard

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Kin Hubbard

It's not how you start, it's how you finish.

The Hours

People don't start wars, governments do.

Ronald Reagan

We don't have the time to have a 30- or 35-man camp here because of exhibition games. We want to start building a team here, and to do that you have to have the players that will be a part of it around. We're going to let it play out up in Dallas.

Doug Armstrong

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Ronald Reagan

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

It used to be about the golden years. We talk about it (now) as a place where you start your second life. It's not about slowing down.

Andrew Smith

The first one is usually the best pitch, so that's the one I look for and that's the one I go for all the time. I wanted to hit the ball and do something good, start something for the team.

Jackie Frey

Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.' But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.

Samuel Johnson

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell

We've got a two-game win streak now. The girls are starting to play with passion and desire.

Joe Debruyne

Russell put together a nice drive to start the second half and then when they returned the punt, you could see our kids heads drop. But to our kids credit, they refused to lay down the rest of the game. They could have quit and folded their tents, but they didn't and I was proud of them for that.

Andy Stephens

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Ralph Ellison

You have to start making those an intrinsic part of what you do. I think the more we do that, the better we're going to be as a team.

Adonal Foyle

We didn't have a rocket start. But we see sales steadily picking up as more games become available.

Asako Miyata

We were about to go oh-for-April. I remember the night before, Frank Robinson talking to Mark Williamson and I and saying Mark was going to start the game and pitch six and I was going to pitch after him for three and get this nonsense over with. And that's the way it went.

Dave Schmidt

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alberto Salazar

Things were getting out of hand in there. People were starting to get all haywire.

Lisa Lyons

After we passed around two boxes of Kleenex, starting with me, the staff here is just very happy for me. They know and feel that this is a great opportunity for me, and so because of that, they have wished me the best.

Gloria Davis

This is a start. We don't know where this will go. We just want to make a good-faith effort to give this a try.

Mike Reid

I can tell you I have called 29 other teams, and all of our special assistants are flying in tonight to start two days of meetings. . . . We?re going to take a fresh look at everything.

Brad Kullman

No doubt housing activity was elevated over the winter because of very, very mild weather. One housing start in Syracuse, N.Y., in December is an awful lot. So we shouldn't be surprised by a big fall-off.

Charles Lieberman

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Steve Lowery

We're still negotiating, trying to get lending terms that are favorable. These are very complicated transactions, and when you have to start from scratch, it doesn't get done overnight.

Todd Shaw

They were very keen to start the process early, ... But once they start, they may not continue at a rapid rate.

Lorenzo Codogno

I hope they keep the team somewhat intact, ... I think most of us deserve another year --another chance. I think we probably could use someone like a dominant No. 1 starting pitcher, but beyond that I don't know what the hell to say about what we should do.

Jamie Walker

We started really well. Playing on the road isn't easy and getting a good start is so important and we really did a good job early on. We didn't maintain the intensity, but after a start like that, it is tough to keep up that level.

Curt Fredrickson

We cannot play with fire. We have warned from the start that the ibis should not be here. Now it is nearly too late.

Matthieu Vaslin

We're hoping to start a new tradition.

Carmen Diaz

I've played a lot better over here this year, ... I've shot a lot lower scores; I just haven't really managed to put four rounds together. But I'm still only 32 years old and starting to feel more adjusted to playing over here.

Lee Westwood

We got off to a really slow start offensively. But I thought our defense made up for that and played really well and didn't give them any easy shots.

Lelani Gordon

I feel like now we're getting a little bit of a fresh, new start. It's a whole new game plan, a new focus.

Cory Neal

I don't like starting the season off on the road, but I don't have much choice. Getting opponents to come here (during the winter) is very difficult.

Mac Gifford

I'm starting to accept that she's not coming back. Until maybe today, I just couldn't accept that it was real.

Daniel Horowitz

It was tough, there was no silver spoon in the mouth. I did a five-year apprenticeship starting at 14. You have to prove yourself. They throw you a bit of meat on the bone and if you handle it you go on.

Douglas Whyte

After being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him all the time...I was not with him that night, because I felt like I was coming down with the flu.

David Allison

If we get a big kick start to the quarter with a strong April, that could offset us being a bit weaker than we expected to be in the first quarter.

Bob Schnorbus

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

Jamie Cullum

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

I think Democrats might want to be a little bit careful before they start pointing fingers. This is something that has ensnared both parties.

Sean Spicer

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

Karl Albrecht

We've been shooting pretty well the second half of the season, and when you're gearing up for the playoffs, that is something you have to work on. We have been working on it, and it's starting to pay off.

Gene Brisbane

But we do have to negotiate. And as a result of that, we're lagging some $6 behind what sheriff's deputies start at.

Dave Mitchell

We seem to play better on the road ­ more as a team. It's just an us against them mentality. It draws us together. This team is really starting to come together.

Andy Mangin

You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.

David Levin

When you can shoot the ball like we did early, and you get off to a good start, good things are going to happen. We got good, balanced scoring from Kendrick (12), Simmons, Allen, and Childers (9) and we benefited from some good, easy buckets.

Rich Herrin

It's not so important for him, the overall. He won it last year. This is something that had been discussed since the start of the season, taking a break before the Olympics.

Marc Habermann

We are inviting all the girls who are interested in playing to attend as the selection process will start from then.

Charles Husbands

They have the cornerstones set in. They do have a good core of young players here who have been around for four or five years and are starting to come into their own.

Ric Jackman

Fires are not going to start spontaneously. But if someone throws a cigarette out, it could catch on fire quickly, and the weather conditions, particularly that high wind, could cause rapid fire spread.

Phil Badgett

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

Marsha Sinetar

We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going to create 344,000 jobs each month starting in August, and things are going in the opposite direction.

Lawrence Mishel

People try to say it can be a bad influence, like they try to say with video games and movies. However, we say from the beginning you have to be 18 or older. You know what you're going to get with us because we've labeled ourselves from the start.

Ron Jeremy

College students can help change the world. We need them to start this issue of global warming.

Laurie David

We were pretty close. We had a lot of games that we had a chance to win and couldn't get over the hump. But that's a good sign and in the next couple of years, we'll hopefully start being able to win some of those games.

Steve Wammer

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

Lord Mansfield

My advice to young film-makers is this: Don't follow trends, Start them!

Frank Capra

To start with a performance like that was disappointing.

Michael Monaghan

When you are piling things on top of each other, by nature you will have a pyramid shape. Your mass will be bigger at the bottom, smaller than what you have up higher. When you have wave action, if it is going close to the top, it will start working its way through the structure, which can erode it and create a failure.

Guillermo Ramirez

I got a good start there on 10 and drove it in the fairway a lot on the back nine. It's a great golf course, very tough. If you're in the fairway, obviously, you can shoot some good scores.

Steve Lowery

The best four are going to start, ... ... Gates is playing great and has kind of crawled out of his shell. Brian Soi is an incredible football player. E.J. is doing great. Ben Childs can play. I'm excited about all of those guys.

Tom Mcmahon

The refinery business overseas is just starting to heat up. We should see continued growth at Graham.

Christopher Carosa

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

Richard Price

I just think sometimes, when you start talking about something, it just kind of builds up. Kind of a snowball effect. Any time there's a one-goal game or only two goals, then people are always talking.

Shean Donovan

It's hard to say when it will start, ... I'm not being evasive; I really have no idea. Right now, I hope it's later rather than sooner.

Adam Carolla

Dance is definitely something that members are starting to embrace.

Donna Meyer

We've had quite a shining start of the year so the fundamental driver of markets will probably surprise on the positive side this year again.

Yves Maillot

I start with 'stir' and then I do 'liquefy.

Dave Risdon

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to...Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Whitey Ford

We'll start to see improved margins and some very nice flow-through in the third quarter.

James Perry

I thought getting off to a good start was important. I felt our defense was pretty good and we limited them to one shot.

Gregg Ford

We have to start getting it done. We're going to be going up against some big dogs and we have to start showing our teeth. We have more aggressive than our opponents.

John Sacchi

It's frustrating. We need for somebody step up and start making shots and take control.

Josh King

Our goal today was to start with intensity from the first whistle, and play with intensity until the end. Basically our ground ball control was lacking intensity, and today we wanted to win ball control, ground ball control and play with intensity. Today, we did that.

Cindy Fitzgerald

I'd love to get more patient at the plate. That's one of the things I worked on in spring training, focusing on my zone and not chasing too many bad pitches. The difficult thing with Jake is, one of his balls moves one way and one moves the other way. It felt good to have two at-bats like that to start the season.

Lance Niekro

They salute the boys, and my tears start flowing.

Karla Comfort

We need people to be able to come down here and start really enjoying football games at Arnett Gardens.

Patrick Roberts

I am proud of our guys and am starting to see some positive things. Our guys are still playing hard, despite our record. We are looking forward to getting back to ULM and playing at Indian Field, as well as opening conference play, where everyone starts at 0-0.

Jeff Schexnaider

People are starting to wonder if this late-summer decline is for real.

Brian Williamson

I thought I had some good speed going in the top section and then I shut it down pretty hard and put myself out of the top 30. But at least I'll know what I finished right away. I'll either be happy or sad when I come across the finish line tomorrow because all the top guys are (starting) in front of me.

Daron Rahlves

Greg chose bottom to start the period. I stepped into a turk and stayed there.

Hunter Collins

We talked at the half that we needed to start playing the way we knew how. The main thing we needed to do was play defense. Having lost to Blackville earlier in the season, I don't know if we knew what to expect. I just asked them to turn it up in the second half.

Tonia Young

Only a handful of Democrats know either one of the candidates. Both of them are starting virtually from scratch.

Garry South

For me, the best time of the year is the start of the second semester. They sit in the mess desk and catch up with one another. They have amazing stories to tell.

Adm. Richard Gurnon

We have to start with the basic rules. There has to be zero tolerance.

Alfredo Hernandez

We were in a slump and out of sync because of the injuries. The win was important because were finally starting to get healthy. We've barely had enough players to conduct a practice. Now it's just a matter of getting our timing back and working on a little conditioning.

Nick Bosnic

You should start seeing little heads at about three weeks, little gray heads and then they turn white. You'll probably hear them before you'll see them, because they're very squawky.

Marge Gibson

He does a good job of making the big saves when we need them. If the other team is starting to push and gain momentum, that's when he's able to step up and make saves for us.

John Danby

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties. How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck.

Linda Ellerbee

It's better to start and complete a room so you can enjoy it. By approaching each project with a strategy, we are able to turn a vision into a reality.

Robin Conners

My really strong belief is that the future is with people who are entrepreneurs, who decide to start a business in Northwest Indiana that will determine what our future is.

Don Coffin

It should be a pretty wild morning. The draft will probably start while we're driving back, and Matt will start getting phone calls from the teams that are interested in him. As a father, I have a feeling it's going to be a special drive home.

Steve Bernstein

I'm hoping so. We looked pretty strong today as a whole. We started slow and our big men down in the lineup gave us a kick-start. We looked good today.

Reid Gorecki

John Book, for his first start of the year, pitched a great game. He gave us a really good effort today on the mound.

Kurt Peters

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Terrie Archer

The impressive thing ... was that he was pretty poised. At times, it gets a little hectic in there and he starts making audible checks and he gets hit and you start going in the wrong direction — in domes in particular, where it's real noisy. I thought he really handled it beautifully.

Mike Holmgren

I also work in the clinic where we do acupuncture. It's starting to be popular with older dogs, and you see a lot in improvement.

Lynhaar Rodriguez

They carry a lot of the weight. But the great thing is we're starting to get scoring distribution throughout the lines.

Drew Clarkin

They are just names now. But with names come experience. And experience says these guys are going to be able to compete. ... You are probably going to see some new faces (in the starting rotation), but one of the things with Sparky is he knows who's ready -- and who's not -- to start a game.

Patrick Mcverry

Honestly, I did it for the opportunity. I love what I do, but I don't know if I was doing the character of Cassie justice anymore. When you start to feel like you want to be challenged in other areas, the light starts to dim a little.

Laura Wright

You just get that feeling the way things are working out. I didn't get off to a great start. I wanted to win the job, but I'm not heartbroken about it. If Ian needs any help, he's my teammate and I'll do everything I can.

Mark Derosa

There's been a sea of change in college basketball. And it's just starting to catch up to everybody.

Jay Bilas

I always kind of chuckle when I hear people start talking like he's done.

David Lucas

He is deeply remorseful for what happened. He has done his time, so who are we to stand in judgment of him? Soul has made a fresh start and kept his nose clean and I don't see any reason why he would change that now.

Keith Walker

He could start for Arkansas right now.

Gary Snyder

We have bankruptcy because we recognize that bad things happen to good people. It's meant to give someone a fresh start. That idea is pretty well gone now. The new rules turn a compassionate system into a punitive one.

Mike Hacker

We get a new start in the second half of the season and maybe gain some confidence.

Layne Ulmer

Human beings are complicated, yet from our experience of working with hundreds of thousands of people, we've learned that most or even all of the average person's neuroses and hang-ups disappear when they start giving and serving others.

Robert White

We're starting to put in a bottom I think in the Nasdaq, but it's not quite there yet. We're going to probably stagger around and see some volatility over the next week or so.

Courtney Smith

When they start talking and talking about us, it shows they are worried about playing Liverpool.

Rafael Benitez

I think that Georgia played their level of intensity to the top to start with and I think we came in passive. We made two quick turnovers from the start and then it just rose from there.

Carolyn Peck

We start from eighth place in the constructors' championship, any improvement is satisfying and we have to make as big a step as we can. I don't promise you podium finishes for this year or even victories but we will make our mark and put everything in place to close the gap to the top teams and get there.

Mario Theissen

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Chris Perkins

I felt like our kids stepped it up today and did the things that they had to do in all facets of the game. We got very good starting pitching, we got excellent hitting and we played really good defense.

Lee Driggers

I was taken off-guard by our start. I thought our team was prepared mentally and emotionally. As much as they spread the field, there's a lot of running room. Even if you play perfectly.

Steve Roberts

In the next two weeks, it's going to start changing. And it's going to be pretty dramatic.

Douglas Hamilton

Hey, Maria wants it. She's starting to learn to move better and cut off angles and things like that. I'm a big believer in Maria. I think she's very hungry.

Mary Carillo

They're worried that their population bubble is going to pass pretty soon and they're going to start on a downhill slide. In some of the rural areas, they're already seeing young people leaving for the cities.

Tim Dufault

Volkswagen said at the start of the year that it would be going up in market share and instead it has gone down. They appear to have lost the U.S. consumer in terms of design and functionality.

Adam Jonas

Union County is a physical team. They put a lot of pressure on our guards. They're a scary team. They pushed us around a little bit last time, so we need to get off to a good start. That's going to be key.

Al Carter

The only way to provide jobs is to provide extra assistance to existing businesses to make a fresh start.

Bill Hammond

It's a division game and a very important game. We have a big week, but we're focusing on the first game. We need at least six points in those four games. I think that's a goal we can reach starting (tonight).

Patrice Brisebois

Maybe this is the moment to start the healing process. One of the ways people heal is by being distracted.

Ken Ehrlich

We are still interviewing witnesses and conducting an investigation, but it's starting to look like this really isn't a police matter.

Doug Cole

Got off to a great start, then started missing fairways. Really sloppy on the back nine.

Peter Jacobsen

The rules are tricky and you have to be careful so you don't have to start all over. You really have to completely become an American.

Carmen Diaz

The work ethic and energy has been there, for the most part. We just haven't finished. We have to find a way. Hopefully the bounces start going our way, but we have to start creating those, too.

Andrew Luciuk

One of the big mistakes a team can make is get a one or two-goal lead and start sitting back ... while the other team has the opportunity to turn on the jets offensively and put some pucks in the net. We didn't want that.

Mike Serba

We did it in response to requests from our customers that we start offering what would be like a gift certificate. The idea really has caught on.

Laura Douglas

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

John C. Maxwell

It's getting better. I'm starting to feel a little more consistent with everything. It's coming around, slowly but surely.

Jon Lester

It was quite a difficult mission almost from start to finish.

Chuck Dovale

It was like starting a fire.

Marissa Graciosa

When we retired to the living room and he picked up his guitar ... My 14-month-old son would just gravitate toward his pops. He'd start playing that Stevie Ray Vaughn song, Pride and Joy , and Michael Ray would crawl over and try to help his pops play.

Michael Deviney

Growing up, I've always been a believer that real football is played in Texas, starting in high school, starting in little league. I mean to bring (the title) back to where it comes from, that's my plan.

Selvin Young

He has all the pieces, and you could start talking about sharing files across different devices.

Philip Sugai

You get that good junior class that becomes a senior class and when they graduate you're starting over at square one.

Larry Morgan

We'll finally, maybe, start to see the extinction of wires in the home entertainment network.

John Hull

The market's noting that earnings are good, the economy is doing well, and yes, interest rates will rise, but not dramatically. Interest rate sensitive stocks are starting to come back after falling in the last few weeks.

Brian Bensch

They got off to a good start. A lot of that was our fault — we just didn't come out ready to play.

Morris Almond

Heading into the new year, across-the-board improvements are giving rise to a more hopeful workforce, consistent with a growing demand for skilled labor and increased financial confidence. Multiple signs indicate that improving expectations about the employment market will jump start 2006.

Steve Wolfe

With a threat this serious we had to start speaking with one powerful voice. When the government does something good we will be there to back it up. But when it fails we will be making noise. Climate change should be an electoral issue, like schools, hospitals and terrorism.

Stephen Tindale

The risk of a serious suicide attempt in people who start taking antidepressant medication is, fortunately, quite low — less than one in 1,000. The risk actually goes down after people start antidepressant medication.

Dr. Greg Simon

I'm just delighted to have swum like that. It was a great feeling. It was amazingly loud and distracting in the arena, but I just love that noise. It was my race plan to control things from the start. I went out quickly, but I was still holding it back a bit for the end.

David Carry

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca

Yeah, you might get tired of playing a song night after night, but then when the people start singing along to every word it's always incredible. We are a lucky, lucky organization.

Ken Block

If I start the rest of the year, I'll go out there and get six interceptions. My goal is to get 10 this year and I'll have to get them in 14 games now.

Ahmad Carroll

I think we will start sometime early next year heading down toward 4 percent [yields].

William Meehan

I like to start. If they put me in the bullpen, I go out there and do my job. I feel very good about my chances.

Claudio Vargas

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

It was excellent. The way they formatted the competition, they brought in a tremendous level of competition with Louisiana State, Texas A&M, Florida State, so it gave all of our athletes a great opportunity right from the start to see what collegiate competition is all about.

Fred Harvey

I think our schedule does a great job in preparing us for the sectional. We're looking forward to playing schools our size. We've taken some lumps, but we've learned from our mistakes and we're starting to make progress.

Drew Trost

If we start pulling 40-45 Modified every week we will make this purse huge. We are prepared to make this the home of the Modified with the biggest weekly payback that anyone has seen.

Gary Clay

So the most likely solution was going to come from a new, start-up airline, which is what has happened.

Mark Davison

I'm a realist in the fact it's going to be loud and communication is going to be an issue. But I'm not going into the game saying it's a disadvantage for us. Besides, a fast start will take the air out of the crowd.

John Wade

The recent outages have caused my company to start looking for alternative CRM solutions unless Salesforce.com is able to stabilize their systems, and fast.

Jason Ellis

I'm not expecting a miracle during the first season after a new start in 2006. But I'm confident that the new team will be successful over the long term.

Nick Heidfeld

What's a challenge for me as a coach is to (decide) who to start and who to play as the game goes on because I've got a lot of girls who can play well. That's a good challenge for me to have.

Patricia Petty

It's good to start off with a win. It wasn't the prettiest or cleanest of games. We've got things to work on.

Joe Caruso

Our guys were pretty hungry, and it was a good win for us. We continued to pick up the pressure and were able to start running the court, which is what we like to do.

Jimmy Wallace

If my legs start going at all, the crowd will be my legs for a little while.

James Blake

It's been 12 seasons on the World Cup tour and I needed a break from it all and still be able to perform at my highest level. It was the perfect plan from the start.

Todd Lodwick

NAC is a security trend for sure, but it's only as good as the policies you create. You can start with a partial solution and work your way to a full deployment.

Robert Whiteley

We think he's got a chance to be a pretty good pitcher. Whether that's in the bullpen or as a starter we're not exactly sure, but we want to give him every opportunity to start.

Pete Mackanin

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

Anthony Walton

I told my team that it was time to start passing the ball to us instead of (Hemingway). We're a young team, however, so we're going to make some mistakes.

Pat Hewitt

I definitely want to build my batting average. I also think I can start running more this year. I've always wanted to be put in that position and to hit and run more.

Tadahito Iguchi

You have to totally drop your ego and start from scratch, and learn a new business.

James Worthy

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

I think Josh can compete with anyone in the bracket. I quick pin like that is a great way to start.

Ken Bussard

I'm picking it up slowly but surely. At first, I didn't know what was going on. I feel I'm starting to perform a little bit better.

John Kerry

One thing the riots have shown is that these kids are desperate for attention. We're trying to tell them that you matter most when you vote, that's when politicians have to start listening to you.

Samir Mihi

They start chipping right after Christmas. If there's only a few trees there, it's because the parks department keeps it clean.

Billeye Rabbe

I told them we needed to start playing our own game. We just needed to run the ball more and crash the boards.

Matt Kelley

We simply must start making our roads safer for Oklahomans to travel. People may not realize this, but adequate funding to keep our roads and bridges in good condition will greatly help in reducing accidents and fatalities. Things such as paved shoulders and median barriers are the types of road-design elements we need to implement more of across our state.

Chuck Mai

Consumer spending growth has generally been trending at about 2.5-to-3 percent at an annual rate -- not booming, but not terrible, ... The fact that the job market is still weak is restraining optimism a bit; hopefully, as the recovery gathers pace, we will start to see more job growth.

Jim O'sullivan

I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit.

Chuck Hernandez

Some days are better than others, ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

Brian Robertson

There is news that the economy is starting to improve, but there is a normal lag in responses to that [in office spending].

Jim Hackett

Kyle pitched a good game and we're starting to hit the ball like I thought we could.

Scott Justus

We thought we had some momentum going to start the second half (back to a 10-point deficit), but they kept hitting their shots.

Mike Chere

It was all excitement today. The fans were loud. We've got great fans who have supported me and have supported us through this whole thing. It was more excitement than anything at the start of the game.

Dany Heatley

Worst-case scenario would be a strike starting Monday.

Dan Scott

We've been kind of a skeleton crew all year. It's had an affect on us from the start, but we're hoping we'll get everyone back soon. Our goal is to try and improve our level of play the rest of the way.

Joel Dunn

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Jim Hightower

I played like garbage. From the start, the game wasn't what we planned it to be. As a team we never got into any type of flow.

Alex Walker

There is going to be a lot of competition for the two starting forward spots this year. It's going to be good.

Todd Gilbert