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Quotes About Before

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.
~ Jean-Marc Vallee
Thus, in so far as time is constituted by duration, there is the same necessity for distinguishing a public and a private time as there was in the case of space. But in so far as time consists in an order of before and after, there is no need to make such a distinction; the time-order which events seem to have is, so far as we can see, the same as the time-order which they do have.
~ Bertrand Russell
before night,' as Nanny used to say of too exuberant children.
~ Josephine Tey
Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?
~ Josh Lanyon
He wondered if everyone's lives had a dividing point. A moment which sat clearly between before and after.
~ Julia Quinn
I have a remedy against thirst, quite contrary to that which is good against the biting of a mad dog. Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you; drink always before the thirst, and it will never come upon you.
~ Francois Rabelais
Where were you before she called?" "At a wedding." "Drink much?" "More than I should have." "Were you drunk when she called?" "I probably would have passed a Breathalyzer." "But you were, shall we say, feeling it?" "Yes." "Ironic, don't you think?" "Like an Alanis Morissette song," he said. "I have a question for you.
~ Harlan Coben
Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
~ Sean Penn
There were a lot of fan-made trailers for 'The Originals.' The fans sort of decided it could be a show before anyone else did.
~ Joseph Morgan
There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.
~ David Lowery
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.
~ Sibel Edmonds
The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted.
~ Smedley D. Butler
Only in his dreams had he encountered this sensation before: the doom-laden knowledge that one is trapped in a predicament that makes no sense and will never make sense, no matter what one does.
~ Sophie Hannah
The soul lived long before it entered your body and will live long after it leaves it.
~ Stephanie Arnold
Through a determined program of sheer dumb luck and liberal applications of THC I had managed never to impregnate a woman before
~ Michael Chabon
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
~ Adam Driver
For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"
~ Robert Graves
who had drowned in Greece nearly thirty years before.
~ Bill Bryson
Ridiculous the waste sad time Stretching before and after
~ T.S. Eliot
One of our oracles tells us, 'Rain falls, dew rises. Between is mist. Between is all that is.' Let that be your answer, manchild. Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters—all that is.
~ Tad Williams
Her goal had been before her, clear, uncluttered-now this. The pure order of her will was outraged by the mess.
~ Tanith Lee
Trauma is a time traveller, an ouroboros that reaches back and devours everything that came before.
~ Junot Diaz
There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.
~ Justina Chen Headley
I had a lot of respect for Jeremy Renner as an actor before I worked with him, because I was very impressed with what he did in 'The Hurt Locker.'
~ Denis Villeneuve