Starting Over famous quotes
03-26-2025
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We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
-- Alan Cohen -
I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.
-- Ali Liebegott -
Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.
-- Ann Coulter -
If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
-- Anne Carson -
Memories don’t fade, it is just we who start overlooking the things once done or said.
-- Anuj -
Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.
-- Anya Seton -
I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.
-- August Wilson -
Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
-- Barbara Cook -
Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
-- Beck -
The power of the computer is starting to spread.
-- Bill Budge -
I don't think all life is precious. I know people say that all the time, "Life is precious." I think some life is precious, and some life is just a waste of protoplasm. Start over.
-- Bill Maher -
I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.
-- Bill Russell -
What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
-- Billy Crystal -
Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
-- Billy Dee Williams -
I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.
-- Camilo Villegas -
(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg
-- Carol Matas -
Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.
-- Carson Kressley -
A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.
-- Christine Lahti -
I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.
-- Christopher Walken -
It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.
-- Craig Brewer -
So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.
-- Dan Chaon -
It is better to start over than to continue down a path that you know is wrong for your Soul.
-- Denise Linn -
A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.
-- Dorothea Benton Frank -
When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.
-- Dr. Seuss -
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
-- Earl Weaver -
It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.
-- Elif Batuman -
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
-- Frank Gehry -
The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.
-- Guido van Rossum -
You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.
-- Gwen Bristow -
Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
-- Gwen Ifill -
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
-- Hal Linden -
In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.
-- Hal Rothman -
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
-- Harry Seidler -
Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I
-- Hayley Williams -
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
-- Isaac Marion -
Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake.
-- Iza Calzado -
I love him Ginny... and in love, there is no fear.
-- Iza Calzado -
Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.
-- Jaime Herrera Beutler -
As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.
-- Jerry Weintraub -
If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
-- Jessica Lange -
The past does not define, you the present does.
-- Jillian Michaels -
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
-- Jim Jarmusch -
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.
-- John Medina -
But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been
-- John Steinbeck -
No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.
-- John Wanamaker -
Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
-- Lee Iacocca -
So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.
-- Lee Majors -
I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.
-- Lee Majors -
If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.
-- Lenny Wilkens -
And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.
-- Lisi Harrison -
I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.
-- Loretta Devine -
Home was always the place she went to when she had to start over.
-- Lorna Landvik -
I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.
-- Lou Gramm -
I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.
-- Lynn Collins -
If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over
-- Macklemore -
The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.
-- Macklemore -
I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.
-- Marina Keegan -
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
-- Mark Twain -
We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.
-- Marsha Norman -
Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.
-- Mary McCormack -
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.
-- Mary Pickford -
So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.
-- Matthew Lesko -
There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.
-- Michael Shanks -
You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.
-- Mitch Albom -
When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
-- Mother Teresa -
How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.
-- Naomi Ragen -
Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza smiled and reached over and gently pulled the yarn, unraveling the uneven stitches. Then she looked into Isabel's trusting eyes and said, "Do not ever be afraid to start over.
-- Pam Muñoz Ryan -
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
-- Patrick Stump -
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us and start over (Gen. 8:21; Zeph. 1:2). Therefore, the existence of cruel and arbitrary nature, together with the universality of human sin, prevents us from beginning the theological enterprise with any concept of God that is distinct from revelation. All theologies of a cosmic harmonic principle shipwreck on the truths of tragedy, catastrophe, and injustice.
-- Paul F. M. Zahl -
I don't want to unlove you because I love you.
-- Piolo Pascual -
I've always love how food preserves a memory.
-- Piolo Pascual -
How can you not forgive someone who made you a better person?
-- Piolo Pascual -
I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now.
-- Piolo Pascual -
Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.
-- Richard Bach -
I alone must solve my problem. I have to clear my mind of everything else, think hard, analyze, explore my options, plan a strategy for the immediate situation, and then do whatever it takes. Sometimes it means scraping off what I have done and starting over again and again.
-- Richard Schmid -
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.
-- Rocco DiSpirito -
I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.
-- Sabrina Ward Harrison -
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
-- Sam Levenson -
It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over
-- Sara Shepard -
Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!
-- Sean Hannity -
You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.
-- Sebastian Bach -
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
-- Seth Lloyd -
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
-- Squarepusher -
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
-- Steve Buscemi
