Early Quotes - page 5

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous. (Stacy Schiff)
I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people. View quote
Stephane Hessel
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends. View quote
Herbie Hancock
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told. View quote
Brian Selznick
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run. View quote
James Heckman
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. View quote
James Henry Breasted
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. View quote
James Henry Breasted
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. View quote
Jeremy Paxman
In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock. (Dieter Rams)
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. View quote
Esther Duflo
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness. View quote
Alison Gopnik
Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful. View quote
Christina Ricci
Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. View quote
Sharon Olds
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. View quote
Antonia Fraser
We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer. View quote
Alan Autry
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. (Betty Buckley)
Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting. View quote
Brion James
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. View quote
Chris Chocola
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. View quote
David Zucker
I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not. View quote
Dennis Muren