"Get started" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other; but he shut his teeth grimly and wagered he could make good if he really chose to try. He half decided to make the experiment just to show what he could do, but he was at a loss where to begin. Anybody could be successful who really wanted to— every book said that; the hard part was to get started. ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... ride him with a martingale. Has a bad trick of whirling around without cause It's his idea of a joke on his rider. It's all just how he feels One day he'll ride along peaceable and pleasant for twenty miles. Next day, before you get started, he's well-nigh unmanageable. Knows automobiles so he can lay down alongside of one and sleep or eat hay out of it. He'll let nineteen go by without batting an eye, and mebbe the twentieth, just because he's feeling frisky, he'll cut up over like a range ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... till I get started. See if the slant eyes of the inhabitants will not have another angle before I get through. They need a few lessons on the ...
— The House of the Misty Star - A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan • Fannie Caldwell Macaulay
... wait a little while. Give us fair play and see if we are like what you say we are. Wait until we get our hut done and get started, and then if you don't like ...
— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill
... only passing the compliments of the day as compared with what I can do when I get started proper. Do you think I'm going to let any snub-snooted wart-hog of ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
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