Early Quotes - page 9

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted. (Jane Addams)
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries. View quote
Julian Schwinger
The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews. View quote
Geza Vermes
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory. View quote
Ian Hacking
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures. View quote
Brian De Palma
Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they're all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist. View quote
Ritchie Blackmore
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos – resonant utterance or word. (Marshall McLuhan)
The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset. View quote
Bon Scott
I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton. View quote
Willie Nelson
Early on, with any startup show, you're really building credibility and making it stand on its own. View quote
David Boreanaz
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. View quote
William Saroyan
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier. View quote
Robert E. Howard
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! View quote
William Wilberforce
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages. (E. O. Wilson)
It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they were real. View quote
Roger Ebert
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life. View quote
Morarji Desai
Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on. View quote
Kathleen Turner