All Quotes

In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.
‐‐ Mos Def

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.
‐‐ Ron Perlman

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.
‐‐ Morarji Desai

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
‐‐ Aly Khan

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
‐‐ John Caudwell

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.
‐‐ Graham Parker

In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.
‐‐ Lizzy Caplan

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
‐‐ Chris Stein

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.
‐‐ Robin Li

In the early days, I was living with Dee Dee for a little while, and he was never around then, either. He would always be out. He was kind of an energetic guy who was always on the run.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
‐‐ Elon Musk

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
‐‐ Kelly Miller

In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.
‐‐ Eve Plumb

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
‐‐ Alice Morse Earle

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
‐‐ Freddie Mercury

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S. positions in the Ardennes Forest, the site of their original Blitzkrieg success against the French in 1940.
‐‐ Saul David

In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team.
‐‐ Megan Smith

In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.
‐‐ Alice Morse Earle

In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
‐‐ Simon Schama

In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'
‐‐ Kevin Barry

In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
‐‐ Carl Wilson

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.
‐‐ Charlie Hunnam

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.
‐‐ Tom Ford

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.
‐‐ Susumu Tonegawa

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.
‐‐ Torsten Wiesel

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.
‐‐ John Connally

In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.
‐‐ Tyler Cowen

In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.
‐‐ John Christopher

In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'
‐‐ Dave Gahan

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
‐‐ John George Nicolay

In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
‐‐ Ben van Berkel

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

In the early years, I would say GoPro's products were not that impressive.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner

In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson