Years Before Quotes

273 Years Before quotes by 246 unique authors

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for… — Julian Casablancas
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. — Clay Shirky
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it… — Fritz Sauckel
A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can… — Monty Roberts
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all… — Iain Pears
Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie. — Robert Mark Kamen
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic. — James Laver
Some couples--most couples--waited years and years before they developed the ability to read or to feel each other so well. Then there were those very… — Lora Leigh
My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now dawning… — Jimmy Carter
Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about… — Alex Chilton
Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone… — Russell Simmons
I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon. — Pete Townshend
I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the… — Gunter Grass
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I… — John Stossel
There’s a lot of pressure playing something that existed for so many years before you were involved, and already has a fan base. I approached… — Chris Hemsworth
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years… — Neil Gaiman
If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after… — Ali Akbar Khan
I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we've been together since I was 22. — James Marsden
People think my career started when I sent that tape to Renaissance. I’d actually been working hard for seven years before I got to that… — John Digweed
I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary… — Griffith John
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or… — Miroslav Vitous
Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test. — Daniel Greenberg
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and… — Winston Churchill
Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got… — Bootsy Collins
What did it mean, the first time, a thinking creature looked deeply into another's eyes? Did it take a hundred thousand years before this happened… — Don DeLillo

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