Before Quotes

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

I don't think anybody should get married before they're 30. You're too young to really know yourself.

I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.

I knew that the show was coming and they wanted me to have a co-host. And so I asked Mary Hart and she was one of the first. Before that it was Sarah Purcell then Cindy Garvey.Then Mary Hart, then Cindy Garvey again here in New York, then Anne Abernathy and then Kathy Lee, who stayed 15 years. And now Kelly has been there eight.

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.

Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

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 written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.