E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Even bad art remains art, as it reminds us of our imperfection”
“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
“Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.”
“Even bad men love their mommas.”
“Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.”
“Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.”
“Even bad times are temporary.”
“Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.”
“Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance”
“Even bastards have pride, my lord.”
Source: Rolf's Quest
“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”
“Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.”
“Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.”
“Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.”
Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel
“Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.”
Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get £26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.”
“Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.”
“Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.”
“Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.”
“Even before he left the room, — and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power.”
“Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.”
“Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.”
“Even before I had a daughter, I was passionate about global women's issues, but now that she's here, I'm even more inspired to leave a better world for Evangeline.”
“Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.”
“Even before i had children, I knew that being a parent was going to be challenging as well as rewarding. But I didn't really know.
I didn't know how exhausted it was possible to become, or how clueless it was possible to feel, or how, each time I reached the end of my rope, I would somehow have to find more rope.
I didn't understand that sometimes when your kids scream so loudly that the neighbors are ready to call the Department of Child Services, it's because you've served the wrong shape of pasta for dinner.
I didn't realize that those deep-breathing exercises mothers are taught in natural-childbirth class dont really start to pay off until long after the child is out.
I couldn't have predicted how relieved I'd be to learn that other peoples children struggle with the same issues, and act in some of the same ways, mine do. (Even more liberating is the recognition that other parents, too, have dark moments when they catch themselves not liking their own child, or wondering whether it's all worth it, or entertaining various other unspeakable thoughts).
The bottom line is that raising kids is not for whimps.”
Source: Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
“Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.”
“Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.”
“Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.”
Source: Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
“Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.”
“Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.”
“Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.”
“Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.”
“Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.”
“Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.”
“Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy's girl.”
“Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.”
“Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.”
“Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza”
“Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.”
Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON
“Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.”
“Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.”
“Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person becomes an authority to whom laypersons should, in their dealings with that field, defer. Techne typically results in a useful result.”
“Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.”
“Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.”
“Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.”
“Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.”
“Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.”
“Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.”
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)