Pre Quotes
496 quotes by 459 authors
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a…
— Russell Baker
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
— Roseanne Barr
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I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit…
— Jo Brand
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most…
— Bill Bryson
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When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and…
— Steve Buscemi
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
— A. S. Byatt
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What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
— George Carlin
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab…
— Eric Alterman
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This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to…
— Dominique Easley
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Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment…
— Benjamin Boukpeti
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I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I…
— Madonna Ciccone
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My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups…
— Russell Page
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Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look…
— Eddie Murphy
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The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit,…
— Heber J. Grant
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were…
— George MacDonald
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These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body.…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or…
— C. Wright Mills
Who Wrote These Pre Quotes
459 authors contributed a total of 496 Pre Quotes, led by these top contributors: