Quotes About Prelude

My months are spent preparing for the fall.

I always know the ending; that's where I start.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.

It is always dullest before the yawn.

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

I've only just begun.

Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority. Or whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonise.

This whole book is composed of first pages.

Every meal I want to start with soup.

on the brink of war and then tumbling into it. The

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

I had melancholy thoughts . . . a strangeness in my mind, A feeling that I was not for that hour, Nor for that place. —William Wordsworth, The Prelude

Volume I Chapter I Introductory

I do know this—this right here is just prelude. Dress rehearsal. The intro. One of these days each one of us is going to get called up and given the chance to join our voices in a song we've never heard, yet one we've known our whole lives.

During the months preceding the trial

It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

All this is just sort of warming up; the whole thing won't be like this.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

First one's free.