Starts

Famous quotes containing the word starts:

“For now we take the floor
Quite unremarked-on, and I feel once more
That silent beckoning from you verify
All I remember weaker, but
Something in me starts toppling.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that the spirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)