A preliminary agreement in principle is not a deal.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

— Deanna Petherbridge

I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the surface-level knowledge about Zelda doesn't begin…

— Therese Fowler

The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led…

— Aaron Patzer

This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll…

— David Kay

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

— Edith Wharton

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an…

— James Mooney

I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of…

— Patricia Churchland

I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some very, very preliminary discussions about…

— Eddie Trunk

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and…

— Matt Gonzalez

After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce…

— Laura Wasser

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

— Mark Leyner

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

— Edward Weston

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

— Paul Mellon

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make…

— James Lasdun