I was a promising graduate student. I landed a position as a professor before I even started to write my dissertation. While I prepared to start my new job, I decided that I would begin by studying the brine that bleeds sideways within the rocks that underlie the inner Aegean region of Turkey.
The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.
If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.
Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' - and it's those mealy-mouth hipsters who crochet codpieces and their ye-olde-sideburned friends who pickle stuff and slaughter their own gluten-free goats.
There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.
When the flowers start blooming, I like to ride my bike.
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.
Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.
A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
I start warming up before training an hour before at the hotel. That's not because I feel old and my body needs it. It's because it's prehab. It's preventing those injuries.
Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.
Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.
Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce your chances of fracture later in life.
