Top 100 Before I Quotes
#1. Love you. A stranger accidentally text messaged me the other day. I didn't delete it. I look at it before I go to bed at night and sometimes during the day. I know it wasn't meant for me ... but it's nice to pretend it was.
Frank Warren
#2. I have only the vaguest memory of a life before fear. Every morning when I wake up there is one blissful second before I took around the room and remember my daily terrors.
Lena Dunham
#3. Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
Maiwenn
#4. And if I die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take
But please don't cry
Just know that I have made these songs for you.
Kid Cudi
#5. I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
Hanya Yanagihara
#6. The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.
Chris Ofili
#7. I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.
John Greem
#8. I weigh my words before I say them. They're one thing I do have control over. And so I am purposeful with them. Deliberate. I decide what to give and what to hide. I watch for reactions. I study their impact.
Megan Miranda
#9. I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.
Padma Lakshmi
#10. My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.
Misty Copeland
#11. I have you here, all around me. I sit in the Ice Garden to get a hint of this, this way that you make me feel. I felt it even before I knew who you were, and every time I think it could not possibly get any stronger, it does.
Erin Morgenstern
#12. I thought I was going to sweat five years before I'd feel like this."
"I wanted it as much as you did. I've just got a hell of a poker face" I smiled, pressing my lips against his.
Jamie McGuire
#13. Even before I knew who you were, Aelin, I knew that what you were working toward . . . It was worth it."
"What is?" Her throat tightened.
"A world where people like me don't have to hide.
Sarah J. Maas
#14. I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#15. I had broken three Saxon shield-walls and buried Hywelbane to her hilt in my country's enemies before I had been elected to Mithras's service, but all Lancelot had ever done was boast and posture.
Bernard Cornwell
#16. I still sing him
songs before I am ready, sing him
back the moments he has missed.
as if to say, this is where I was
when you couldn't find me.
David Levithan
#17. i dream a thousand
words before i
sleep.
Cory Basil
#18. I always tell girls, 'You gon' fall in love with me before I leave.'
Slim Jimmy
#19. Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you, Logan said, Silver Frost.
Kailin Gow
#20. I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
Yair Lapid
#21. before I was married I didn't care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never minding. But since I'm married, except renewing, of course, I give you my honour I've not touched a bit of stamped paper.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#22. I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
Steve Jobs
#23. Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a 'do I or don't I?'; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.
Ruby Rose
#24. I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical, it comprehended, you know, just about everything that you can think of.
William Monahan
#25. I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.
Steve Kerr
#26. You better get over here with my car," Grandad says. "Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it." "Sorry," I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. "Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I'd like to see.
Holly Black
#27. I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Walter Salles
#28. I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it'll be those cluster things - it's a bit random - and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly ... and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!
Jade Jones
#29. I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
Alice Hoffman
#30. I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.
Jason Sudeikis
#31. Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
Etgar Keret
#32. I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
Joe Taslim
#33. Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.
Hugh Prather
#34. I'll put an oven mitt on before I handle anything hot - including my penis.
Jarod Kintz
#35. Marsh recounts an anecdote about a psychopath who was being tested with a series of pictures and who failed over and over again to recognize fearful expressions, until finally she figured it out: "That's the look people get right before I stab them.
Paul Bloom
#36. I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
Aaron Swartz
#37. I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.
Michael J. Sullivan
#38. Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.
Matthew Arnold
#39. I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one loves, one feels the need to use the same old ways one has always used. I know I am only beginning to love, but already I want to abandon everything, everybody but you: only fear and habit prevent me.
Graham Greene
#40. Robin: I'm sure you've learnt to bake, but you have not learned to handle Much. The phrases that you need my lady, are "No", "No you can't", and "No, get out of here before I throw something at you".
Robin McKinley
#41. Tom, Tom, Tom," I said, fingering the top of the knife bar, which was dusty; I'd take care of that later. "You lost the right to ask for sympathy about three minutes ago. Now get out of our home before I stab you again.
Camille Pagan
#42. Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
Evander Holyfield
#43. I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid.
Josephine Angelini
#44. If I live a day and I don't know a little more than I did the day before, I think I wasted that day.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#45. I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.
Elle Macpherson
#46. I held Star close before I departed. "If I don't come back," I told her, "find a way to give everyone the plague.
Danielle Paige
#47. I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
Becca Tobin
#48. I have a saying: Receive everything - decide later, which reminds me to be open to possibilities instead of closing the doors too quickly before I've had the opportunity to sit with something new. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#49. I've never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your jobs, I think it will drive me mad. (Bones)
Jeaniene Frost
#50. People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.
Mechai Viravaidya
#51. For me probably the best moment is before I get started in the morning. I get up and I ride my bike before I come into the studio, so there's a lot of peace and quiet right before the day starts and my assistants get here.
Jacob Hashimoto
#52. Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
Max Brooks
#53. I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.
Anthony Bourdain
#54. Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
Bre Pettis
#55. I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.
Jeremy Lin
#56. My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
Judy Blume
#57. There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit ... retire!
Groucho Marx
#58. I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?
Trent Reznor
#59. Too bad he took a tumble out that window when he was too drunk to know what he was doing," she said, cheerfully callous. "It'll be a cold day in hell before I ever let a man near me again.
Anne Stuart
#60. I think I'd better take some of Gramps' sleeping pills, I'm never going to be able to sleep without them. In fact I think I'd better take a supply of them. He's got plenty, and I'm sure I'll have a few bad nights at home before I get straightened out. Oh, I hope it's just a few.
Beatrice Sparks
#61. During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders
John D. Voelker
#62. There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
Daniel Craig
#63. I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
Michael Caine
#64. I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western medicine was not able to cure her. If I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me.
Peter Nygard
#66. I tried to do my bracelet up, but couldn't get the clasp to fasten, and before I tossed it across the room, Will grabbed my hand and fixed the silver clasp for me.
"Jesus, Mark, surely Batman can do up his own bracelets."
"Batman. Bat. Man, Will," I reminded him. "I'm not Magneto.
N.R. Walker
#67. It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.
Elizabeth Hand
#68. Tiny decides to ignore me, and he tells Jane that he hopes one day to have enough texts from Will Grayson to turn them into a book, because his texts are like poetry.
Before I can stop myself, I say, "'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' becomes 'u r hawt like august.
John Green
#69. I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.
Bill Peterson
#70. but it would be nice to say It's raining only on my head rather than I have a chemical imbalance in my brain or I just remembered that someone I love will die before I do.
Neil Hilborn
#71. Goody. That must be why they were looking for a 22-caliber anything when they came by with their search warrant this morning.'
'They didn't!'
'They did.'
'When?'
'Oddly enough, right before I upped my meds.
Sandra Balzo
#72. You are special. That's why i didn't make moves on you before. I didn't see you the same way i saw other women. You were so much more.
Kahlen Aymes
#73. They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
Anne Lamott
#74. I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I just thought his reporting seemed familiar.
Andy Kindler
#75. I'm a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you're going to catch something in the future even.
Brett Ratner
#76. I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.
Paula Poundstone
#77. It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.
Andrea Hirata
#78. They say the road to happiness is a long one, but I was afraid I'd run out of gas before I arrived.
Tina DeCoux
#79. A lot of patients you know if you haven't seen them for 6 months or a year, you won't remember what medicines they're on or what kind of problems they have. And you know I'd feel much better if I know a little bit about the patient before I walk in the room, so I won't be too surprised.
William Davis
#80. That last afternoon in Henry's hotel room was for me like a white-hot furnace. Before, I had only white heat of the mind and of the imagination; now it is of the blood. Sacred completeness. I come out dazed in the mellow spring evening and I think, now I would not mind dying.
Anais Nin
#81. I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis
#82. In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.
Richard Bausch
#83. I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.
Regina Spektor
#84. If you wish to hurt yourself , you're doing a very good job, but for me that was exquisite. Now, move." He slapped my butt hard, making me cry out of surprise. He laughed, then did it again. "Hurry up and ride me, before I decide I want to fuck your other hole." ~Frano
Marita A. Hansen
#85. If I tell a joke on stage and the crowd laughs for a minute, I stand there for a minute and enjoy them laughing before I go on to the next joke. On TV, if I stand there for a minute while they laugh, I look like an idiot who can't remember the next joke.
Anthony Jeselnik
#86. I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.
Francesco Carrozzini
#87. Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if I'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.
Dalton Trumbo
#88. Do you love me, Jet? Despite it all, do you love me?"
"Ayden, I'm here. Of course I love you. I loved you before, I love you after, and Ill love you for everything in-between.
Jay Crownover
#89. I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.
Compay Segundo
#90. But I wanted to tell you before I left how completely abjectly sorry I am for all the pain I have caused you and that if I die you were the one true love of my life. By the time you read this I will be gone but please know I am still always at your side ... Yours forever Henery William Schoonmaker
Anna Godbersen
#91. Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.
Andrew Bogut
#92. I couldn't handle more railing against Alexi. He'd been a wreck recently. Before I could stop myself I blurted out the rumor running through school: " Max is having sex with multiple partners!" Oh. Crap. ~ Jess
Shannon Delany
#93. So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.
Anna D. Shapiro
#94. There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
Victor Cruz
#95. Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.
Fred Rogers
#96. Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#97. My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.
Elliott Gould
#98. While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before ... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.
Elizabeth George
#99. Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
Willis Polk
#100. I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.
Alber Elbaz
