I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

It's a play where something went wrong, 'Cause it's five hours, twelve minutes long. If you sit there, my friend, From beginning 'til end, Then your bladder better be strong!

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Beginnings are always messy.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

From the end spring new beginnings.