Famous Quotes & Sayings

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

One would think state and local officials would know beforehand who would handle the dead, and where they would be taken. These e-mails suggest otherwise.

David Sanborn

So I get it worked out beforehand so I can be really efficient in the studio.

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

I can honestly say that we as the coaching staff tried to impress upon the players beforehand that victory was not the most important thing in this first game. In this competition you can get lucky and win here and there, but if you don't start to consistently produce quality high-class performances, then you go nowhere.

John Tesh

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.

We want to make clear to patients, in an elective (non-emergency surgery) setting, that it's OK to discuss all this beforehand and ask, 'What's that gonna cost me?'

The region is poor. You know beforehand about the risks in the mines, but let's be realistic, it's the only source of work, especially for those with little education. If you don't work in this, you die of hunger.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

Kaya Scodelario

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.

What the Treasury has done has caused a significant, permanent shift in the way the curve is structured. We'd seen a lot of subtle changes beforehand but it was the announcement this week that really triggered the earthquake.

Kevin Correia

The other springs I kinda knew beforehand that I probably was gonna be sent down. ... It was definitely the toughest send-down I've had out of the 10-15 times I've been sent down.

Dick Advocaat

It is something you fear beforehand but this is the consequence of yesterday's match.

He just hated the soft ground. We thought beforehand he would go on it but we were wrong and there will be another day with him.

Steve Ralston

(Revolution boss Steve Nicol) came to me a day or two beforehand and said I probably wouldn't start. I was fine with that and just said that I just felt like I could go but would be happy to be on the bench. In the game I hit a shot in the first half and just thought 'here we go, let's see.' It felt fine and that was good for my confidence.

If it's a nice little fire fountain, I'd probably run toward it and take pictures. If it's more violent, you'll probably know about it beforehand because there will be lots of earthquakes.

What we suggest is that they meet them beforehand to make sure that everything is OK - they might want to check insurance details for instance.

Paul Williams

Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.

I said beforehand that I thought people would be unpleasantly surprised by the power of this storm, and I think they have been unpleasantly surprised.

Jesse Williams

I was a little off technically today (in the high jump). I had the long jump beforehand and my legs kind of took a little bit out of them long-jumping. I just came out and wanted to have fun today.

Brittany Bowe

I'll get to the oval three hours beforehand and warm up for about 45 minutes off the ice. Then I'll stretch and get on the ice for 20 minutes. I'll cool down, then relax, close my eyes and think about what I need to do.

The publicist called beforehand to make sure that the store was prepared for their privacy.

We believe that unilateral measures are not the (right) way. But if we had to take unilateral measures, I wouldn't like to tell beforehand what measure I would take.

That was another close game we just couldn't win at the end. There were a lot of things that should have happened beforehand to give us a chance to win that ballgame, so it never does come down to one play.

Allan Jones

The boys were sparkling beforehand and it was a matter of calming them down. They kept their discipline when things could have got away from them.

Horatio Nelson

I owe all my success in life to having always been a quarter of an hour beforehand

E. B. White

If you don't practice situations beforehand in which you have to defend your lead, you won't necessarily know what to do in match situations.

Mamie Gummer

I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

I knew beforehand it would be close because we clashed a few times last year. I knew he was going to be close to me, but I just stuck in there and gave it all I had at the end.

Ben Gibbard

I had no idea it was such a big deal. We were touring in Japan beforehand and people kept telling us they were flying from Japan to be at Coachella.

It was our goal for 100 percent of students to get their first or second choice, and that happened -- of the students who turned in their forms. I was pretty confident that it would happen because of the work we had done beforehand with surveys.

Boris Yeltsin

It is unethical to name names beforehand -- we will talk to everyone first...This is difficult but reliable.

Instead of using his position for revenge and for real gain, he decided to forgive those who had pressed him beforehand and take care of the country.