#before

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#anyone #before #even #going #history

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#beginning #berlin #came #circumstances #civilization

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness. ↗

— Franka Potente

#before #book #coming #essays #fitness

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #bump #i #least #off

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#before #crowd #favorite #i #jokes

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#before #born #done #everything #i

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#believe #city #down #got #into

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#age #before #changes #day #disillusioned

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#being #bombed #britain #burned #democracy

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. ↗

— Prince

#eight #found #george #george washington #i