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Famous quotes containing the words start the and/or start:

    “Have Johnny fix him a sandwich or something. Any man running for the Senate has to wantsomething. Right, Bud?
    Okay, start the bus then. And drive them over a cliff.”
    —Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter, and Michael Ritchie. John J. McKay (Melvin Douglas)

    “Gordon: Sure, sure, I got all your copy. Why didn’t you tell me you were going to write it in Greek? I’d start a new department.
    Peter: That was free verse, you gashouse palooka!”
    —Robert Riskin (1897–1955)

    “There the traveler meets, aghast,
    Sheeted memories of the past—
    Shrouded forms that start and sigh
    As they pass the wanderer by—
    White-robed forms of friends long given,
    In agony, to the earth—and heaven.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)