Then Quotes

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.