Before Quotes

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

Dig your well before you're thirsty.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.