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Before Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at…
- How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head…
- We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we…
- Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie…
- I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.
- When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my…
- Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood