Beforethis Quotes & Sayings

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done. — Lindsey Buckingham

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries. — Ban Ki-moon

Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now. — Steven Herrick

Next to love, kindness is the most beautiful thing. — Debasish Mridha

Hat came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there was never a beforethis nor will there be an afternow. I am accepting. This is not a thing to be solved, or conquered, or destroyed. It is. I am. We are. We conjugate together in darkness, plotting against each other, the Labyrinth to eat me and I to eat it, each to swallow the hard, black opium of the other. We hold orange petals beneath our tongues and seethe. It has always been so. It grinds against me and I bite into its skin.. — Catherynne M Valente

The buzzards were neutral. No matter who won down there, they would win. They had but to wait. — Louis L'Amour

I think all directors should be animators ... — Steven Spielberg

A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist's task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore, and engage based on the artist's version of the truth, even if that truth is artifice. — Kate Kearns

Hang on for some metaphysics. The Aneristic Principle is that of order, the Eristic Principle is that of disorder. On the surface, the Universe seems (to the ignorant) to be ordered; this is the aneristic illusion. Actually, what order is "there" is imposed on primal chaos in the same sense that a person's name is draped over his actual self. It is the job of the scientist, for example, to implement this principle in a practical manner and some are quite brilliant at it. But on closer examination, order disolves into disorder, which is the ERISTIC ILLUSION. - Malaclypse the Younger, K.S.C., Principia Discordia — Robert Shea

And you don't care that I'm your brother," he said. "I know how you felt about Jace, even when you thought he was your brother. You can't lie to me." "Jace is better than you." "No one's better than me. — Cassandra Clare

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington. — Barack Obama

The shark's just a shark, right? No one calls it Jaws. It doesn't call itself Jaws. The film is called Jaws, the shark is just a fucking shark. So how can you say, "I like the bit where Jaws bites the boat"? — Jonathan Trigell

I'm not sure I'm ready for another big research project just yet," I said.
Oh Yeah?" he said, handing me one of the beers. "What else you going to do? You can't fix nothing , you never worked a day in your life. The only thing you know how to do is hang out with niggers like us."
I nearly choked on my beer when he summarized my capacities so succinctly - and, for the most part accurately. — Sudhir Venkatesh

This is the times where everyone wants to lead, who's going to follow if we are all so keen to lead. Who's going to serve if we all want to be masters? — Euginia Herlihy

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. — Douglas Adams

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life. — Adam Khoo