Before You Came Along Quotes

#1. Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

Kami Garcia

#2. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures. He

Kami Garcia

#3. Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

Terence Tao

#4. I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Jack Paar mentioned that he once had said to a young friend, "Why do you kids use 'cool' to mean 'hot'?" The friend replied, "Because you folks used up the word 'hot' before we came along.

Marshall McLuhan

#6. A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.

Elvis Presley

#7. It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

Steve Jobs

#8. Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.

Lawrence Block

#9. Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.

Daniel Craig

#10. When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.

Anne Cox Chambers

#11. For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

Casey Kasem

#12. There was a good chance that Shaw was going to break my heart and that was big and scary because I didn't even know I had a heart to break before she came along.

Jay Crownover

#13. You make me absolutely fucking crazy," he said thickly. "Hate to break it to you, but I think you were there long before I came along,

Madeleine Urban

#14. Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

Clive Thompson

#15. I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

Joanna Lumley

#16. You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

Jack Davenport

#18. How did people raise kids before plastic came along? "Everything for Baby", said the sign over the aisle we were in. It should have said, "Everything for Baby Is Made from Molded Plastic in Ugly Primary Colors.

Dan Savage

#19. Getting a rise out of him was like trying to give a handjob to a parking meter: you were going to end up frustrated and exhausted long before a cop came along to haul you away.

Christopher Moore

#20. The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.

Rick Yancey

#21. I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Antony Gormley

#22. Dance music was on its arse before we came along.

Sergio Pizzorno

#23. I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

Charles Manson

#24. I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

Roger Tory Peterson

#25. The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

Bob Dylan

#26. I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Jimmy Carter

#27. Writing [my journal] was the only way I could keep track of the last experience before a new one came along and erased the old one from my thoughts.

Kristine K. Stevens

#28. Always remember that in order for shine the spotlight on you, someone came along before you and paid the light bill....

The1Essence

#29. Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'd all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward.

Stephenie Meyer

#30. When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens - there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.

Brendan Iribe

#31. I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.

Vi Hart

#32. Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.

Ellen Meloy

#33. Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

Merle Haggard

#34. Human beings ate well and kept themselves healthy for millennia before nutritional science came along to tell us how to do it; it is entirely possible to eat healthily without knowing what an anti-oxidant is.

Michael Pollan

#35. Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.

Maureen Johnson

#36. In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

James Shikwati

#37. Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along.

Rush Limbaugh

#38. If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.

Barack Obama

#39. This, too, was part of losing Fran: watching all the things she'd made better with her presence fade blacker than they'd been before she came along.

Seanan McGuire

#40. Before the Internet came along, most people rarely wrote anything at all for pleasure or intellectual satisfaction after graduating from high school or college.

Clive Thompson

#41. Oasis were the last great, traditional rock-n'-roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

Noel Gallagher

#42. The days carry the living along; the dead are left behind. It was disconcerting to discover how everything went on without Papa. The sun came up and went down, the roses bloomed, the birds sang, the stars wheeled overhead exactly as they had before

Juliet Waldron

#43. I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

Don Johnson

#44. I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

Fiona Apple

#45. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living

R. Buckminster Fuller

#46. Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

Arthur Jones

#47. Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

D.W. Griffith

#48. People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

Chris Lilley

#49. We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

Burt Rutan

#50. Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

Ice-T

#51. Two days before I got the audition for 'Extras,' I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, 'No, wait and see what else comes in.' Lo and behold, along came 'Extras.' Now that was lucky!

Ashley Jensen

#52. Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

Matt Groening

#53. I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.

Jim Beaver