Sooner Quotes

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.