Years Before Quotes

273 Years Before quotes by 246 unique authors

Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new… — Barbara Mertz
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more… — Jackson Browne
My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species… — Graham Hancock
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't… — Robert Sheckley
A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve. — Edna Ferber
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon
Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality… — Jarvis Cocker
Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it. — Tennessee Ernie Ford
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of… — Biz Stone
After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar… — Carrie Brownstein
Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing… — P.J. O'Rourke
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only… — Paula McLain
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before… — B.F. Skinner
I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing — Ben Chestnut
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. — Aldous Huxley
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number… — John Howe
I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important. — Max Levchin
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord… — Nelson A. Miles
In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains… — Lucas Papademos
I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before… — James Rollins
I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I… — Jeremy Sisto
I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater… — Eric McCormack
If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost… — Phil Crane
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the… — Ellen Barkin
I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a… — Gale Gordon

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