Starts

Famous quotes containing the word starts:

    If the juggler is tired now, if the broom stands
    In the dust again, if the table starts to drop
    Through the daily dark again, and though the plate
    Lies flat on the table top,
    For him we batter our hands
    Who has won for once over the world’s weight.
    Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

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

    Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that the spirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)