Top 100 You Started Quotes
#1. People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.
Courtney Barnett
#2. With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with.
Terry Pratchett
#3. It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.
Matt Dillon
#4. If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.
Morgan Freeman
#5. You started with a broken heart and blamed everyone you met after that for breaking it.
Kristin Hersh
#6. Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group - in other words, mongrelized.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#7. Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.
Gloria Steinem
#8. Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.
Karen White
#9. Whenever you feel like giving up, think about why you started in the first place. If that still matters, so does the need to keep going.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
#10. At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand.
Bryce Wilson
#11. Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
Robert Crippen
#12. If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
Quincy Jones
#13. Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
Steve Prefontaine
#14. At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.
Donald O. Clifton
#15. The world is far less random than it appears. Once you started paying attention, patterns emerged where before you only saw chaos.
Anna Jarzab
#16. The process of finding the right doctor for you is excruciatingly painful, sometimes causing more damage than what you started with, but the feeling of finding the right one is priceless.
Prudence Hayes
#17. Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat ... If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path.
Nikki Sixx
#18. It is 23.32 p.m. I still believe in symmetry, so this will be the last part. You've reached an end if you come back to where you started. I also remain superstitious about certain numbers. I use 23 and 32 for my lottery tickets, for example. It extends to dates. I still see signs.
Olivia Sudjic
#19. Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.
Rachel Gibson
#20. You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
Napoleon Hill
#21. You started to feel that if he was around, then everyone else, even the landscape, was just background.
Terry Pratchett
#22. The wheels of progress; sooner or later they took you back to where you started from.
Stephen King
#23. He's like your drug. No matter how far you go or what crazy measures you take to stay away from him, you always end up back where you started.
Claire Contreras
#24. Every time you win a cup it's special, but it's a dream come true when it happens at a club where you started in the youth set-up, surrounded by friends who formed an incredible generation of players.
Clarence Seedorf
#25. Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started. If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them.
Albert Jay Nock
#26. Steve needed to be careful here. He'd read mid-twentieth-century science fiction so he knew that once you started switching realities you ran into problems with nested levels of existence.
Danyl McLauchlan
#27. See the interlaced strands?' She touched the raised pattern with a knobby finger. 'These trace a never-ending path, leading away from home and circling back. When you wear this, you'll never be far from the place you started.
Christina Baker Kline
#28. Finish want you started, Regret will hit you harder when you didn't even try to start.
Makram Shakur
#29. When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.
Sidney Crosby
#30. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Rohn
#31. Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.
Mother Angelica
#32. Dreams change," I told her. "They have to. Stretch with our bones as we grow up. No shame in ending up on a different path than you started down on.
Carlie St. George
#33. Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.
Jason Fried
#34. She fucking turns me inside out."
"Women who matter have a way of doing that." Lucas scowled. "We sound like a couple of women, talking about feelings. I think Sascha's having a bad influence on me."
"You started it.
Nalini Singh
#35. The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!
Tony Danza
#36. As a writer, you can't get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn't want to know.
Billy Marshall Stoneking
#37. Writing is a 24/7 job. You live it, eat it, breathe it ... the pay can be pretty lousy, but you do it happily, because you love it!!! That, and from the day you started writing the voices in your head became a permanent fixture ... oh, missed one out - You sleep it!
Patti Roberts
#38. And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.
Anthony LaPaglia
#39. It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.
Kameron Hurley
#40. Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion.
Sonny Barger
#41. I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.
Jodi Picoult
#42. Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started.
Karen Traviss
#43. Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are!
Martin R. Lemieux
#44. In the end when you get your master back, you realize it's got absolutely nothing to do with what you thought it was going to be when you started.
King Khan
#45. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cats tail- you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh.
-Magnus to Clary, pg.228-
Cassandra Clare
#46. Beginnings are happy never-endings as long as you remember where you started from.
Steven Cuoco
#47. War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#48. You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.
Jodi Picoult
#49. With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.
Stephen Shore
#50. Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.
Theodore Sturgeon
#51. Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully
Michael Connelly
#52. Life is like a maze of doors and then all open on the side you're on.
Just keep on pushing hard, boy, try as you may ... you're going to wind up where you started from.
Yusuf Islam
#53. I just remembered something you said when we first talked. That your pain only went away when you started thinking about others." "Not just that," Ayub said. "But when I found God."
Karan Mahajan
#54. One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype .
Ellen Page
#55. On the other side of fear is freedom. And usually fewer fingers than you started with.
Jenny Lawson
#56. ...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
#57. Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place.
Steve Caballero
#59. You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you.
Lionel Suggs
#60. No, you started this shit. I don't know how they do it in Rhode Island, but here in Jersey, bitches get stitches for talking shit and fucking with something they shouldn't.
L.D. Davis
#61. By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you've become in order to escape the person you've become in order to escape the person you started as.
Chuck Palahniuk
#62. He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?
Alex London
#63. All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.
Ann Petry
#64. You told me you wanted to marry Seth's bed, and then you told me you'd marry me if I asked. After that, you started to-"
"Enough," I groaned, wanting to crawl under the blankets.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#65. Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe in) something. Once you claim to know
something, you can't call that a lack of belief in the opposite view
and then say it's the place that you started.
Lewis N. Roe
#66. You started my training by buying me a beer. For breakfast. Germans are awesome.
Andy Weir
#67. Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?
Ed Sheeran
#69. You end up at the destination you fix your eyes on: look to the future and you'll get there, keep looking at the past, and you'll find yourself back where you started.
Julie Johnson
#70. Never forget where you've been & why you started your movement. Reflect, Focus, Persevere. Don't give up & keep moving forward on the roads of your life.
Timothy Pina
#71. The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can't stop.
Laura Esquivel
#72. When you start with an insult and end with a compliment, most people only remember where you started.
Faydra D. Fields
#73. That's my theory: immediate electrocution of all ignorant and dirty people. I'm all for the criminals - give color to life. Trouble is if you started to punish ignorance you'd have to begin in the first families, then you could take up the moving-picture people, and finally Congress and the clergy.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#74. When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.
Jerry Spinelli
#75. I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.
Ray Lewis
#76. You will walk the circumference of the entire globe and find yourself right where you started. Here, he said, taking her into his arms.
Tiffany Reisz
#77. That word means something else, you know,' his father had told him once, when Mission had spoken of revolution. 'It also means to go around and around. To revolve. One revolution, and you get right back to where you started.
Hugh Howey
#78. When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.
Lee Brice
#79. What was worse than losing you was when you started to hurt me. Your words and actions made me hate coming to school. They made me uncomfortable in my own home.
Penelope Douglas
#80. But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
Khaled Hosseini
#81. As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.
William Boyd
#82. Eat anything before you started drinking?" Xander asked.
"Fuck off."
"I can tell that vodka is helping you make great decisions."
Javier glared. "Fuck off."
"Has your vocabulary been reduced to two words now?"
"No. Please fuck off.
Shayla Black
#83. The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started
Thomas Beecham
#84. If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.
Phil Crane
#85. He hadn't realized how much it could mean, having someone to talk to like that; he hadn't realized that it could be a kind of lifeline, and that without it, there would be nobody to save you if you started to drown.
Jennifer E. Smith
#86. I wouldn't say I'm moving to America; I certainly would say that I'm just staying there; and I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to come here unless they've got an extensive CV in the U.K.; you have to build your career wherever you started from.
Nonso Anozie
#87. But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was ... and believe him when he did.
Lisa Kleypas
#88. It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
Kim Edwards
#89. A new beer with sweat running down the sides slides into view and Pigpen sidles up beside me grinning like a crazy man. "Everyone's dying to know who you're texting with. It's like you're a twelve-year-old girl chained to that damn cell. Have you started your period yet?
Katie McGarry
#90. Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
Martha Graham
#91. It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too.
Robb White
#92. What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.
Carly Fiorina
#93. Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.
Ernie J Zelinski
#94. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.
Janet Fitch
#95. It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.
Larry Carlton
#96. You started caring about somebody, you did stupid things.
Kameron Hurley
#97. Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
Ralph Marston
#98. The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
Terry Pratchett
#99. As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.
Cassandra Clare
#100. Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett
