All Quotes

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.
‐‐ Kelly Cutrone

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.
‐‐ Rob Thomas

Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence of another' at times before we become aware of him by means of our ordinary senses.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?
‐‐ Kevin Plank

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
‐‐ Godfried Danneels

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.
‐‐ James Loeb

Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
‐‐ Rob Thomas

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
‐‐ Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.
‐‐ Mike Singletary

Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.
‐‐ Alafair Burke

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
‐‐ Herb Kohl

Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.
‐‐ Amy Klobuchar

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.
‐‐ Les Aspin

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
‐‐ Eydie Gorme

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
‐‐ Jeremy Heimans

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
‐‐ Patricia Heaton

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
‐‐ Mark Rutte

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.
‐‐ Neville Marriner

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
‐‐ Bob Ney

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we shot the pilot, I knew what 'Dallas' was, but I actually was too young to remember the details of the show. I didn't have my hands on the DVDs, so I YouTubed everything I could of J.R.
‐‐ Josh Henderson

Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
‐‐ Daniel Barber

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.
‐‐ Catherine Hicks

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
‐‐ Don Miguel Ruiz

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.
‐‐ Aprilynne Pike

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.
‐‐ Martin Filler

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
‐‐ Sallust

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.
‐‐ Penelope Spheeris

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
‐‐ Edith Head

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley

Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.
‐‐ Paul Coffey

Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
‐‐ Nate Berkus

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.
‐‐ Thomas J. Stanley

Before you can do something you must first be something.
‐‐ John Gielgud

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
‐‐ Kristin Hersh

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
‐‐ Penn Jillette