Commence Quotes

He was a neighbor of Mel Brooks in New York and was set to play the role of Franz Liebkind in Brooks` first film, The Producers (1968). Just before production was to commence, Hoffman was offered the role of Ben Braddock in The Graduate (1967), co-starring Brooks` wife Anne Bancroft, and asked to be let out of his contract. The role of Liebkind eventually went to Kenneth Mars.

(And so, at 6.15pm the partying could officially commence -) No, I`m not drinking XXXX, ... But I am drinking Fosters!

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

When we commence construction, it will also be on a permanent facility, not a temporary structure.

just as she once told an Ambassadress, while pulling on her gloves before entering a drawing room, `Right, let the show commence!`

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.