Years Before Quotes

273 Years Before quotes by 246 unique authors

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house… — Aung San Suu Kyi
I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born. — Lisa Loeb
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions… — Viggo Mortensen
I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years… — Viggo Mortensen
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in… — Frances O'Grady
The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a… — Al Pacino
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. — John L. Phillips
I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants,… — John C. Reilly
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. — Sally Ride
I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series. — Rick Riordan
I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an… — Geoffrey Rush
In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of… — Paul Ryan
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. — John Ralston Saul
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author,… — Jose Saramago
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. — Jerry Seinfeld
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. — Sidney Sheldon
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is… — Peter Singer
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM… — Zadie Smith
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that… — James Surowiecki
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. — James Thurber
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. — Elwyn Brooks White
I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight… — Steven Wright
I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does. — Howard Rheingold
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on… — Kurt Vonnegut
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest… — Mark Twain

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