Early Quotes

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.