Before Quotes

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.