Early Quotes - page 2

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. (Bryan Ferry)
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. View quote
Iris Murdoch
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. View quote
Colette
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. View quote
Willa Cather
It gets late early out there. View quote
Yogi Berra
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. View quote
Charles Lamb
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
When the Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years. (Anthony Powell)
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment. View quote
Franz Werfel
I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families. View quote
Victoria Gotti
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work. View quote
James Heckman
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. View quote
James Henry Breasted
Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
I must confess, I was born at a very early age. View quote
Groucho Marx
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. View quote
John Adams
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. (Vivien Leigh)
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Early to Bed and Early to Rise is a Bad Rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most Prominent and Influential People. View quote
George Ade
Mythology, science, space exploration, these are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write. View quote
Vangelis
Very early in my life it was too late. View quote
Marguerite Duras