Prefaced Quotes

#1. Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense

James L. Brooks

#2. What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

Patti Smith

#3. I was tagged early as the prototypical white player, the guy with the intangibles - the smart player, the guy who did all the right things.

Kevin Love

#4. The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Virginia Woolf

#5. I remember, working on 'Lost,' I learned very quickly the way that I had to approach the material or even ask the director questions. It was always prefaced with, 'Would it be wrong for me to assume?' Because I didn't know where my character on 'Lost' was going.

Nestor Carbonell

#6. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

Jim Valvano

#7. Not much good has ever been prefaced by variations of "Have a seat." I thought of headmasters' offices and electric chairs.

Melissa Jensen

#8. My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

John Hodgman

#9. There's power in your purpose!" -Joe Braxton

Joe Braxton

#10. Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

Ayn Rand

#11. Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.

Jonathan Gold

#12. It's a sad and grotesque thing that you and your friends have become so accustomed to lies that the truth has to be prefaced because it's inherently surprising, a startling departure from the lies that comprise your lives.

Caroline Kepnes

#13. [H]e looked at me gravely and asked, "Are you ready?"

"No," I said. "I'm pretty sure I've never been ready for anything that had to be prefaced with that question.

Mira Grant

#14. Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.

Dan Brown

#15. I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

Barbara Kruger

#16. Every tyranny imaginable is possible when prefaced by the notion that it is for the well-being of the populace.

Steven Erikson

#17. The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#18. Futilitarianism.

Arthur C. Clarke

#19. The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

Laura C. Schlessinger

#20. A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Charlotte Bronte