Starts

Famous quotes containing the word starts:

“Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)