Early Quotes

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so early. And maybe they can achieve it, too, just to get that in their minds.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

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

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.