Began Performing

Famous quotes containing the words began and/or performing:

“I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“And no one, it seemed, had had the presence of mind
To initiate proceedings or stop the wheel
From the number it was backing away from as it stopped:
It was performing prettily; the puncture stayed unseen....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)