Pre Quotes

496 quotes by 445 authors

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to… — James Lipton
And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action. — George W. Bush
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced.... Toxic… — Ernst T. Krebs
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked… — David Wright
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of… — John Fowles
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of… — Russell Kirk
The truth is not being aired in the West. Itâ€™s a surreal perversion of history thatâ€™s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq â€˜WMDâ€™… — Oliver Stone
Given a blank we canâ€™t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those… — Heather McHugh
I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school — Valentino Garavani
PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that… — Ambrose Bierce
I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that. — Avicii
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different. — Hiroshi Sugimoto
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics. — C. Everett Koop
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen… — Adam Gopnik
My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production. — Charlie Kaufman
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without… — Philip Warren Anderson
Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine… — Adam Zagajewski
While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit. — Robert Mankoff
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because… — Tammy Baldwin
There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and… — Camille Paglia

Who Wrote These Pre Quotes

445 authors contributed a total of 496 Pre Quotes, led by these top contributors: