Before Quotes · Page 48

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.

— Naveen Patnaik

Like with 'Outlander' as well as with 'Agent Carter,' I had never heard of 'Outlander' before I got the part.

— Lotte Verbeek

President Obama has shelled out more in federal spending than the five presidents that came before him.

— Elizabeth Flock

They always remember the last thing you do. They don't remember the things before.

— Robert Horry

On set, I have a lot of coffee... so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.

— Jessica Stroup

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

— Azita Ghanizada

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special…

— Cheryl Hayashi

In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years…

— Saul Rubinek

In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August…

— Bill Dedman

When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything…

— FKA twigs

I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always…

— Thomas Sangster

I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm…

— Julianne Moore

In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have…

— Candis Cayne

Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a…

— Tim Murphy

Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought…

— Gray Davis

I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if…

— Jodi Benson

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Before I had Ollie I had never changed a nappy except for a gorilla, an orangutan and a baby chimp.

— Michaela Strachan

Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.

— Peter Diamandis

They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock…

— Armin van Buuren

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative…

— Kristina McMorris

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

— Noam Chomsky

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

— Clara Mamet

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

— Evangeline Lilly

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

— Stephen Hawking

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before.…

— John Stumpf

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

— Carrot Top

Having set its tonal template, Vertigo Crime laid low for a few months before starting in earnest at the beginning of 2010.

— Sarah Weinman

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

— Chris Bohjalian

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to…

— Wole Soyinka

There were bigger and better players before me and there will be bigger and better after.

— Troy Deeney

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe…

— Chris Hadfield

I did marathons long before they were popular, when people running round the streets were looked at oddly.

— Dennis Skinner

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

— Amy Lee

I don't think there's anybody better than Leonardo DiCaprio, and I've been saying that since before anyone knew who he was.

— Michael Keaton

Before 'Idol,' I was lost... Now, I've actually followed through with something. I am a better man for it!

— Elliott Yamin

Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

— Rafael dos Anjos

The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal…

— Kelly Wearstler