Before Quotes · Page 54

None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family…

— Dan Buettner

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career…

— Milla Jovovich

Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

— Casey Kasem

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

— Diane Kruger

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I like to be able to work quickly, to capture the spark of an idea before it goes out.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

— Kaya Scodelario

I was with my wife for five years before we got married. At some point, she was ready to take the next…

— James Marsden

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the…

— Gary Numan

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that…

— Carol Burnett

'Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them…

— Tempestt Bledsoe

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour…

— Shawn Amos

Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you…

— Jonathan Kozol

Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge…

— James E. Faust

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in…

— Richard Flanagan

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

— V. S. Pritchett

Gen Z simply doesn't interact with people as much as generations before us, including Millennials.

— Brett Cooper

Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

— Jimmy Page

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very…

— Fawn Hall

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back…

— Sheila Nevins

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

— Rob James-Collier

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they…

— Tom Wolfe

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

— George Papandreou

I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which…

— Tony Fadell

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

— Salman Rushdie

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing…

— Stephen J. Cannell

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

— Robert Forster

You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous.

— Tamar Braxton

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

— Bernard Tschumi

In every show that I had been a part of before 'Bigg Boss,' I had made a lot of friends.

— Divya Agarwal

I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

— Ellen Page

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

— Phyllis Logan

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000…

— Chelsea Cain

I was never consulted before the bifurcation. Injustice has been done to Andhra Pradesh, which had no revenues.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had…

— Peter Bergman

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and…

— Taylor Momsen

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

— Patrick White

Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine…

— Jakob Bohme

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

— Les Aspin