In Front Of Quotes

#1. LOOK, DO YOU really want a detailed description of two sex robots going at it like a pair of bonobos on day release from celibacy camp in front of an audience of jaded aristocrats?

Charles Stross

#2. Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

Ndamukong Suh

#4. On walks, make sure that your dog is not in front of you, pulling you down the street. Instead, keep your dog to your side or behind you. This will also demonstrate to your dog that you are the alpha figure.

Cesar Millan

#5. The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

Star Jones

#6. Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

Gavin DeGraw

#7. What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Katharine Graham

#8. You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

Rhys Darby

#9. When I perform, I don't think about the haters, the Internet trolls, or anyone else. I care about giving the person in front of me something they won't forget. And that's why I bring the cake and raft out.

Steve Aoki

#10. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. Already

George Orwell

#11. I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were there, just there in front of me, never to be spoken?

John Barnes

#12. This is about as simple as games get. There isn't even the paltriest context for what you're doing; you're not exacting revenge on limbless pigs or feeding your pet bitch-lizard. You're a ninja, fruit is flying up in front of you, and fuck fruit. Sitting around all smug on trees and in pies.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#13. I always think of it like this: Rather than be the sun to someone and light up everything around them, I want to be the moon and light the way just a little in front of them when they are lost or uncertain in the darkness, and always be there with them when they look up. That's my way of living.

Gackt

#14. I stepped on as many feet as I could because it took my mind off this enormous desire to puke that was ballooning up in front of me so fast I couldn't see round it.

Sylvia Plath

#15. She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities
this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny.

Laurie Colwin

#16. I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

Eric Van Lustbader

#17. Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

Paul Engle

#18. My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#19. I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.

Kate Christensen

#20. Without knowing what I'm doing, I'm on the floor in front of her chair, kneeling with my head in her lap, sobbing. She hugs me and strokes my head, and we both cry for a long time. (266)

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#21. This is my hall. And I do not
"
She was cut off as a sharp spear of fire shot out of Arosh's fingers. Livia pulled a guard in front of her, who immediately turned to ash.
"Shut up, woman. I am speaking.

Elizabeth Hunter

#22. We walk towards nowhere, one foot in front of the other.

Barbara Hodgson

#23. When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel.

Dani Shapiro

#24. People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we'll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.

Jenny McCarthy

#25. Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

Jemima Kirke

#26. But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

Evan Davis

#27. He's so kindhearted no dog has ever barked at him. No child has ever cried in front of him. No bee has ever tried to sting him.

Alice Hoffman

#28. If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

Jack Lemmon

#29. I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.

George Tillman Jr.

#30. Reality was what went on inside people's heads. And in front of him were hundreds of people really believing what they were seeing ...

Terry Pratchett

#31. The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.

Swami Satchidananda

#32. If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

Rhys

#33. I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

K'naan

#34. I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

Carl Honore

#35. If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.

Jay Maisel

#36. One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you really know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?' ... It's the the clearest mirror you'll ever stand in front of.

Jon Fitch

#37. Think about winning the day ... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

Drew Brees

#38. Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

Colm Feore

#39. There is no use of pretending in front of people
who had repented pretending to be someone else.

Toba Beta

#40. There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In the studio, the creation part of this business is fun. But, when you see the fans letting you know that they enjoy what you're doing, that's why I keep doing what I do.

Trace Adkins

#41. Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#42. The online environment is unique, and that's a very good thing. Rather than be judged by what they look like or their ability to speak in front of a crowd, people are judged by the merit of their ideas and words.

L. H. Cosway

#43. Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.

Gabrielle Dennis

#44. If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you're in front of them.

Billy Graham

#45. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Charles Bukowski

#46. But no one said a word, because people hardly ever mention the very things that occur right in front of them.

Mary Ann D'Alto

#47. Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports
in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Paul Kurtz

#48. It was more or less late afternoon
and I came over a hilltop
and smack in front of me was the sunset.

Galway Kinnell

#49. 2 All of Me
Be Gentle My Friend
Be gentle with yourself,
forgive yourself for mistakes,
don't expect to be perfect
just get moving, and
keep putting one
foot in front of
the other
Love
***
*

Love

#50. Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

Joey Fatone

#51. Wolfie growled, narrowing his eyes. "You know, the best way to get a predator to chase you is to run."
I snorted. "Oh my gosh, did you practice that line in front of a mirror or something?

Kiersten White

#52. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Daphne Du Maurier

#53. How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

M.B. Dallocchio

#54. Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.

Sandra Cisneros

#55. In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Jon Postel

#56. When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

Richard Louv

#57. Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now.

Deepak Chopra

#58. One said, "Nobody paused in front of the house since we've been here." I slipped my ID case away. "Any out-of-state tags?" "Didn't notice any." Different answer from "No." One

Jeffery Deaver

#59. There's something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.

Joel Edgerton

#60. What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.

Malcolm X

#61. The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

Sasha Grey

#62. My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.

Rosanna Pansino

#63. I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off ... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.

Georges Braque

#64. Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

Mary J. Blige

#65. The man bobbed toylike in front of him, meanwhile digging into his pocket as if scratching at a familiar micro-organism that possessed parasitic proclivities that had survived the test of time.

Philip K. Dick

#66. There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.

Andy Dick

#67. The neck in front of her came up. The head swivelled 180 degrees and the horse looked at Kin with bright insectile eyes.
'YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND,' it said inside Kin's head.
'Hell!'
'THOSE ARE NOT MEANINGFUL CO-ORDINATES.

Terry Pratchett

#68. Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#69. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

Malala Yousafzai

#70. In front of the officers, in front of Captain Phasma especially, they always used their appropriate designations,

Greg Rucka

#71. I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

James Cameron

#72. There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

F. Murray Abraham

#73. I don't tour the TV studios. I don't gossip over lunch. I don't drink in Parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me.

Theresa May

#74. The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

Fred Rogers

#75. You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Alan Shearer

#76. I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail.
These two are my junk mail.

Melina Marchetta

#77. My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.

Dylan Penn

#78. But I contend that most of what we're consuming today is no longer, strictly speaking, food at all, and how we're consuming it - in the car, in front of the TV, and, increasingly, alone - is not really eating, at least not in the sense that civilization has long understood the term.

Michael Pollan

#79. I'm in love with you," I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. "Of course you are," he replied. "I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.

Anne Rice

#80. When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

Michael Richards

#81. I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.

Marcus Samuelsson

#82. I wish I had the guts and talent to be a good comedian. I love the idea of it, yet I'm terrified of it. I'd also love to play music in front of people.

Charlie Rowe

#83. If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play.

Geoffrey Rush

#84. Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

Vincent Bugliosi

#85. Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.
He frowned.
"I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

J.M. Barrie

#86. It is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

Frank O'Hara

#87. What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.

Ted Cruz

#88. I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"

Jim Gaffigan

#89. A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

Richard D. Zanuck

#90. Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time.
"When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire that marked its portal filled the sky in front of him, flexing and twisting like the devil's anus in spasms of immortal agony.

Alan Glasser

#91. Sexual fulfillment is the banana life dangles in front of us just to keep us running.

Jobriath

#92. I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

Dean Martin

#93. But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

Dave Eggers

#94. Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

Sigmar Gabriel

#95. I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.

Roddy Piper

#96. Keep you enemies in front of you.

Chris Matthews

#97. Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#98. If there was one thing in the world Ty was willing to give up everything for, it was sitting right there in front of him.

Abigail Roux

#99. For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

Krista Tippett

#100. I left a church of kind, generous people because I couldn't pretend to believe things I didn't believe anymore, because I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I could never be the stick-figured woman in the Vote Yes On One sign standing guard in front of the doors. I didn't want to be.

Rachel Held Evans