Early Quotes

Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.

I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

The early bird catches the worm.

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.