Quotes About Prologues

#1. The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
Of final belief. So, say that final belief
Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

Wallace Stevens

#2. Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

Elmore Leonard

#3. Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

Oscar Peterson

#4. Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.

Andrea Brown

#5. Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

Jasper Fforde

#6. Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

Margaret Fuller

#7. I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Mary Roach

#8. The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Thomas Carlyle

#9. The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.

McKayla Maroney

#10. Though he'd trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with his shame

Leigh Bardugo

#11. The stars and planets don't disappear just because it's daytime.

Tami Egonu

#12. The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

Keith Olbermann

#13. Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Theodore Parker

#14. In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

Mark Goddard

#15. The first children of my age that I knew were in kindergarten. They seemed very strange, they laughed and talked and seemed happy. I didn't like them.

Charles Bukowski

#16. When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

Larry Holmes

#17. The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

Ashley Montagu

#18. BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST

Ron Silliman

#19. I was surprised by how much of it I was in [Tron: Legacy]. I thought the character was just going to register as a smaller figure because most of what I did was with a body double, and then I would do the stand-in with Jeff [Bridges] and he would be just wearing his regular clothes.

James Frain

#20. The bottom line:
Earth is not mediocre.

Marcelo Gleiser

#21. She took Tsukuru's business card, her whole face lighting up in a smile, then pushed an extension number on her phone as if pressing the soft nose of an oversized dog.

Haruki Murakami

#22. There's an old saying, Zill. Freedom can't be given, only earned.

Brian K. Vaughan