All Quotes

Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.
‐‐ Mark Fuhrman

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.
‐‐ Spencer Bachus

Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'
‐‐ Sung Kang

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
‐‐ Richard Whately

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
‐‐ Unknown

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
‐‐ Garth Ennis

Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.
‐‐ Frank Dane

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
‐‐ Dr. Seuss

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
‐‐ Andy Stanley

Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
‐‐ John Hines

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
‐‐ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.
‐‐ George Foreman

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
‐‐ Hosea Ballou

Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
‐‐ Andy Stanley

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
‐‐ Dan Savage

Precaution is better than cure.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
‐‐ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
‐‐ Gabourey Sidibe

Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.
‐‐ Kate Williams

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
‐‐ Tim Wise

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
‐‐ Gil Kane

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
‐‐ Max Weber

Preconceived judgments. I think we're all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It's such a disease and gets spread so much through social media.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
‐‐ Mary Browne

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
‐‐ Q-Tip

Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
‐‐ Gale Norton

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.
‐‐ Therese Fowler

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
‐‐ CeeLo Green

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
‐‐ David Brin

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Predicting the market is always tough.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
‐‐ Jeff Hawkins

Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
‐‐ Jeff Hawkins

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein