I'll downplay myself before I compliment myself.

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to…

— Laurie Helgoe

I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that…

— Tiesto

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't…

— Malcolm Wallop

I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a…

— Joe Sacco

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around,…

— Banks

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it…

— Reed Hastings

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the…

— Herman Gorter

The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is…

— Joe Pitts

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

— Moira Kelly

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a…

— Carrot Top

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

— Chris Kyle

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never…

— Spike Jonze

I've pulled ticks off of me before.

— Jim Miller

You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.

— Ray Romano