All Quotes

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
‐‐ Liam Neeson

Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.
‐‐ Manny Farber

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.
‐‐ Paul Wolfowitz

Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found gold in multimillion-dollar adaptations of comic-book characters - in the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man blockbusters - Bond was the movies' first big-budget franchise superhero.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
‐‐ Jim Jarmusch

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
‐‐ Lyall Watson

Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
‐‐ Bun E. Carlos

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Before solar, before Sunrun, if consumers wanted electricity, there was a monopoly of someone who told you how much it costs.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich

Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
‐‐ Richard Linklater

Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren't on voter rolls or voted before achieving legal citizenship. A citizenship petition can be denied if they were.
‐‐ Kate Brown

Before taking up dressage, I'd distanced myself from the Paralympics because I hadn't wanted to be defined by my disability. Then when I grew up and got an office job, things started to change. I'm actually allergic to horses, but I'm even more allergic to paperwork!
‐‐ Lee Pearson

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
‐‐ Ira Levin

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
‐‐ Barry Marshall

Before the 21st century, stories became popular because people talked about them in other publications or shared magazine and newspaper clippings with friends.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.
‐‐ Jessa Gamble

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.
‐‐ Edward Ball

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
‐‐ John Hume

Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
‐‐ Don McLean

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
‐‐ Donna Rice

Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
‐‐ Mary Calderone

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
‐‐ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
‐‐ Kristina McMorris

Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.
‐‐ Bryan Clay

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
‐‐ Arthur Keith

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.
‐‐ Jeremy London

Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.
‐‐ Luke Evans

Before the final battle in 'Poison Princess,' Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of exhaustion, then had a trial by fire. In a way, she earned those powers, as she hadn't before, so that was certainly a confidence builder.
‐‐ Kresley Cole

Before the first xx record, I pretty much exclusively listened to electronica. Now, I listen to anything. I think the most inspiring thing is just learning more about more and more different kinds of music and becoming a fan of so many different types and so many different genres.
‐‐ Jamie xx

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
‐‐ Frank Gifford

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
‐‐ Karen Abbott

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.
‐‐ Donna Rice

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Before the Internet, all most people cared about was Office. And Office was really the only reason anyone wanted Windows machines instead of Macs.
‐‐ Michael Arrington

Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
‐‐ Patrick Nielsen Hayden