Ian Mcewan Quotes

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

To begin, at the beginning.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Let's go back, back to the Beginning.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Everything starts from a dot.

I prefer starting. Anyone in this league does.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Every step starts with a step.

To choose is also to begin.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

Just where you are-that's the place to start!

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

The beginning of it starts at the end

Two is the beginning of the end.

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.