Quotes About Prologue

the entire story is prefigured in that monologue...

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

It all started in another book…

A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.

PROLOGUE MARCH 1162 THE ARCHBISHOP'S men fled into the shadows of the lower valley. Behind them, atop the winter pass, horses screamed, arrow-bit and cleaved. Men shouted, cried, and roared. The clash of steel rang as silvery as a chapel's bells. But it was not God's work being done here.

I always thought of episode 1 as the prologue and episode 2 as our chapter 1 for 'Loki.'

What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship to marriage is as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come.

As happy prologues to the swelling actOf the imperial theme.

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

All memory is prelude.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

Dreams are but prologue to days, epilogue to other days, written by our faltering minds.

The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look forward to.

It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.

Be ready; now is the beginning of happenings.

The most reasonable place to end a book is where the next story would begin.

I should probably start with the blood.

And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

What's past is prologue. William Shakespeare, The Tempest Don't bother me with all that history crap. It just gets in the way of action! United States Army colonel, Vietnam, mid-1960s

Verdadeiramente foi o princípio da minha vida; tudo o que sucedera antes foi como o pintar e vestir das pessoas que tinham de entrar em cena, o acender das luzes, o preparo das rabecas, a sinfonia... Agora é que eu ia começar a minha ópera.