Famous quotes containing the words started and/or listening:
“I started out very quiet and I beat Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat de Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Tolstoy unless I’m crazy or I keep getting better.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)