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#1. As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way.

John Green

#2. Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.

Neil Gaiman

#3. I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Colin Quinn

#4. And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.

Len G. Murray

#5. I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

Bryan Adams

#6. I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

Jenny Holzer

#7. When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

Paul Haggis

#8. I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me."
"I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.

Sarah Addison Allen

#9. It started to rain overhead, big sloppy droplets, but only in their immediate vicinity of about five feet. However, this being England, no one was particularly flummoxed even by such a particularly localized, extraordinarily specific example of maudlin weather.

Vera Nazarian

#10. Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

Etgar Keret

#11. After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done.

Ani San

#12. I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

Holliday Grainger

#13. Reaching the top 100 was always my goal since I started to play as a pro. In '05 I came quite close, reaching a ranking of No. 129, but then was stopped by a major shoulder injury.

Marco Chiudinelli

#14. I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

Snoop Dogg

#15. And I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And take me away to a dance or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.

Edgar Lee Masters

#16. Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Ulysses S. Grant

#17. When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.

Dominika Cibulkova

#18. I want people to consider talent without a last name or a race attached to it. I knew it would be a long path but also worth the struggle. That's when I got my confidence and when I started to figure out what beauty is.

Genesis Rodriguez

#19. When I came to America, that's when I started to feel that there was a lot of push-back from women. I was definitely made aware that I am light-skinned. I realized that was a thing here.

Grace Gealey

#20. I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Katherine Paterson

#21. I started to make some commercials, which was a way for me to finally make a living at last. But it was only really a couple of films in that it looked like a viable career option.

Lenny Abrahamson

#22. In early October 2008, after the U.S. government had stepped in to say it would, in effect, absorb all the losses in the financial system and prevent any big Wall Street firm from failing, Burry had started to buy stocks with enthusiasm, for the first time in years.

Michael Lewis

#23. When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices ...

Andres Segovia

#24. In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.

Tom Ford

#25. I studied physical therapy, and I started to study theater because my aunt is a theater director.

Miguel Angel Silvestre

#26. My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

Dave Barry

#27. When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

Christina Hendricks

#28. Ghost Helper: from around 6 p.m. most evenings, and weekends from 11 a.m. I will do all I can to help free your soul. x Mathilde x I often have to organise a queue before I get started to help them all. So many!

L.P. Donnelli

#29. If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

Charlie Hunnam

#30. Another suitor you failed to mention?" he asked, only half in jest.

Her eyes widened innocently, she started to shake her head - and froze.

"Look mister," Jim said tiredly. "I don't know who you are, and I don't care. You're too damn old for her-"

"Hi, Daddy.

Connie Brockway

#31. What if we started to live our real lives like gamers, lead our real businesses and communities like game designers, and think about solving real-world problems like computer and video game theorists?

Jane McGonigal

#32. I started to think about time, and how it keeps moving and draining and flowing forever forward, seconds into minutes into days into years, all of it leading to the same place, a current running forever in one direction. And we're all going and swimming as fast as we can, helping it along.

Lauren Oliver

#33. I was moving briskly. Well, until I realized I had a crazy lady chasing after me. Then I started to run.

Jen Turano

#34. Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

Brad Bird

#35. Nostalgia pierced me. I started to cry. I wasn't sad, but remembered happiness hurts.

Kate Saunders

#36. I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.

Leah LaBelle

#37. I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

Geoffrey Boycott

#38. I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Elizabeth Olsen

#39. I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

George Meyer

#40. You started to feel that if he was around, then everyone else, even the landscape, was just background.

Terry Pratchett

#41. I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.

Hugh Jackman

#42. I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

Lee Norris

#43. When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.

Krysten Ritter

#44. Own me," I gasped. "Obliterate me. Make me feel like there's absolute nothing left but our bodies as they burn." He didn't answer me. He didn't have to. His fingers shoved inside me and started to dance in the way only Cole's ever could.

Ace Gray

#45. I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

Parminder Nagra

#46. Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

Eva Herzigova

#47. I have started to say
"A quarter of a century"
Or "thirty years back"
About my own life.

Philip Larkin

#48. Corrode, v.
I spent all this time building a relationship. Then one night I left the window open and it started to rust.

David Levithan

#49. New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me forever ... The moment I saw the brilliant, proud morning shine high up over the deserts of Santa Fe, something stood still in my soul, and I started to attend.

D.H. Lawrence

#50. With fumbling fingers Harry started to remove his many layers of clothing. Where "chivalry" entered into this, he thought ruefully, he was not entirely sure, unless it counted as chivalrous that he was not calling for Hermione to do it in his stead.

J.K. Rowling

#51. Shut up, Arthur,' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child.
Ginger started to laugh. Not at anything in particular, but just because Ginger was stoned.

Sarah Winman

#52. Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.

Nikki Sixx

#53. I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

Kevyn Aucoin

#54. I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

Elizabeth Scott

#55. Here." "Yeah," she said, as tears rolled down her cheeks again, "and you love Liz too. I could see it." She started to sob then and buried her face in his

Danielle Steel

#56. My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

Elisabeth Shue

#57. Caleb tossed him an explosive and Japhet lunged to catch it before it hit the ground. He glared but Caleb didn't notice. Instead, he started to whistle I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier as he made his way down the left side of the tracks, laying bombs at intervals.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#58. When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously.

Ice-T

#59. Dear Grimm, we're not in Emerald anymore." I started to hyperventilate.

Rexi remained sprawled on her back. She barely opened an eye at my hysterics. "Duh.

Betsy Schow

#60. My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

Albert Brooks

#61. I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

Norton Juster

#62. I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

James McAvoy

#63. You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

Yoko Ono

#64. What I saw transformed with a click like a shaken kaleidoscope. I stopped falling in love with her and started to like her immensely.

Tana French

#65. When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

Jesse Harris

#66. In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.

Tom Szaky

#67. It started to go wrong quite early, my relationship with Architecture

Jeremy Till

#68. Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument.

Robert Cormier

#69. I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry
I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart
God knows what its name was
that tears started to my eyes.

Charles Dickens

#70. When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

David Chang

#71. Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Jim Carrey

#72. The sight of her closed eyelids and parted lips was too much for his weak restraint, and he kissed her again. She put her hands on both sides of his face and started to kiss him back.

Melanie Dickerson

#73. Whether we say the Names of the Lord indirectly, jokingly, as a musical entertainment, or even neglectfully, it will still immediately relieve one from the reactions of unlimited sins.[43] The Mahamantra started to do its job on us.

Sriram R

#74. After dinner, we were all in the kitchen helping with the dishes, and I had the thought, Someone should go check on Momma. And that's when I started to cry.

Penny Reid

#75. At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called to me and I started to fall in love with characters who had that burning desire inside of them, this hope.

Glen Keane

#76. The god laughed darkly. "Let's just say I made sure he was playing on our team."
Curious, I started to ask how, but Apollo grinned at me. "Use your imagination," he said, and my imagination went to some really weird places.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#77. He turned to stare down at his latte, wiping hard at his cheeks as the tears started to fall. He didn't push away the pain. It was his and he would own it. He wouldn't bury it again.

Suzanne Young

#78. He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn't think. Or maybe it was the other way around: When there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, "When I grow up, I am going to be happy.

Guus Kuijer

#79. I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her.

Rodney Dangerfield

#80. We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.

Ronnie Hawkins

#81. My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

Gabrielle Zevin

#82. Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first jobs I had was in a federally-funded program where I taught drama to young people.

Bill Nunn

#83. I started in the late 70s, beginning of the 80s, and I think I started to sing and make music as a therapy for myself; I never planned to be an artist; sometimes when I think about it it's crazy that I'm here, and I'm touring, and I'm doing what I'm doing.

Mari Boine

#84. We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Paul McCartney

#85. When I saw that Moses' version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.

Gerardus Mercator

#86. So I started to think: "How can that happen?" ... So the guy says, "What are you doing? You come fix the radio, but you're only walking back and forth!" I say, "I'm thinking!

Richard Feynman

#87. What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Pete Townshend

#88. The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.

George R R Martin

#89. From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

Evander Holyfield

#90. When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

Judy Blume

#91. Victoria started to text something else, but then she shoved her phone in her pocket and yanked open the door. Why was she trading insults with him on a phone when he was right there?

Lynn Raye Harris

#92. I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

Jeff Bridges

#93. So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that 35 percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down.

Douglas Adams

#94. I ski, I snowboard, I've started to get into skydiving a little bit. I'm a little bit of a thrill-seeker.

Alexander Gould

#95. It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?

Josh Gad

#96. I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

Jana Novotna

#97. I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

Rod Serling

#98. Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.

Rick Riordan

#99. In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Jose Saramago

#100. He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

James Hogg