Beforehand Quotations

I'll get to the oval three hours beforehand and warm up for about 45 minutes off the ice. Then I'll stretch and get on the ice for 20 minutes. I'll cool down, then relax, close my eyes and think about what I need to do.

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.

I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

The other springs I kinda knew beforehand that I probably was gonna be sent down. ... It was definitely the toughest send-down I've had out of the 10-15 times I've been sent down.

What the Treasury has done has caused a significant, permanent shift in the way the curve is structured. We'd seen a lot of subtle changes beforehand but it was the announcement this week that really triggered the earthquake.

The region is poor. You know beforehand about the risks in the mines, but let's be realistic, it's the only source of work, especially for those with little education. If you don't work in this, you die of hunger.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony

So I get it worked out beforehand so I can be really efficient in the studio.

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

One would think state and local officials would know beforehand who would handle the dead, and where they would be taken. These e-mails suggest otherwise.

(Revolution boss Steve Nicol) came to me a day or two beforehand and said I probably wouldn't start. I was fine with that and just said that I just felt like I could go but would be happy to be on the bench. In the game I hit a shot in the first half and just thought 'here we go, let's see.' It felt fine and that was good for my confidence.

I would have been happy beforehand with a 1-1, but not looking at the whole match and when we are ahead 1-0 that late.

I can honestly say that we as the coaching staff tried to impress upon the players beforehand that victory was not the most important thing in this first game. In this competition you can get lucky and win here and there, but if you don't start to consistently produce quality high-class performances, then you go nowhere.

If it's a nice little fire fountain, I'd probably run toward it and take pictures. If it's more violent, you'll probably know about it beforehand because there will be lots of earthquakes.

I always get asked for suggestions on what to get food-lover friends. While there are many gifts out there that a foodie would love, it's always good to do some research beforehand so you know you're getting a gift that will last.

He just hated the soft ground. We thought beforehand he would go on it but we were wrong and there will be another day with him.

It is something you fear beforehand but this is the consequence of yesterday's match.

I was a little off technically today (in the high jump). I had the long jump beforehand and my legs kind of took a little bit out of them long-jumping. I just came out and wanted to have fun today.

I said beforehand that I thought people would be unpleasantly surprised by the power of this storm, and I think they have been unpleasantly surprised.

I said to those guys, we're doing a thing now and I'm probably going to be asked some questions beforehand and/or after and I said what I would like to do is say something. They were like, 'Yeah, yeah Coach, that would be great.' Now the whole thing they did I didn't know. I just told them I was going to paint a picture and say I don't know what those guys' futures were.

Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.

I'm in absolute shock. I cannot believe it. It is absolutely amazing -- I was so nervous beforehand I had (stomach) cramps.

That was another close game we just couldn't win at the end. There were a lot of things that should have happened beforehand to give us a chance to win that ballgame, so it never does come down to one play.

We want to make clear to patients, in an elective (non-emergency surgery) setting, that it's OK to discuss all this beforehand and ask, 'What's that gonna cost me?'

What we suggest is that they meet them beforehand to make sure that everything is OK - they might want to check insurance details for instance.

We believe that unilateral measures are not the (right) way. But if we had to take unilateral measures, I wouldn't like to tell beforehand what measure I would take.

The publicist called beforehand to make sure that the store was prepared for their privacy.

There's not going to be a lot of surprises for me if I can ask him beforehand and see how things work. That's the main thing, just being around him and seeing how he goes about things every day.

(Romantic meals) are really about putting the pieces together. You can do it beforehand while watching football.

Our confidence is really getting up there. If someone had told us beforehand we were going to start out 3-1 on the third day of play, we probably would have said 'right on, we'll take it.' It gives us a lot of confidence going onto the next game especially.

So therefore, as with all insurance, stress to clients the importance of reading their policy beforehand and make sure they understand the liability cover they enjoy as well as the limitations.

So therefore, as with all insurance, it is important to read your policy beforehand and understand the liability cover you enjoy as well as the limitations.

Anyone who thought the president should be impeached beforehand will still think so, and anyone who thought the president should not be impeached will think that,

The boys were sparkling beforehand and it was a matter of calming them down. They kept their discipline when things could have got away from them.

Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

This is probably a good move, to have folks try to work out their differences beforehand and to get a jump-start in identifying the issues.

It was our goal for 100 percent of students to get their first or second choice, and that happened -- of the students who turned in their forms. I was pretty confident that it would happen because of the work we had done beforehand with surveys.

It was important to get the right feeling. There was not much work to do, but a few times they broke in to the goal from the corners creating danger. I knew beforehand how the Czechs play, they don't fire that fast, rather they want to hold on to the puck.

It's a little bit difficult to anticipate the situation beforehand because weather conditions could be quite variable down here.

It is unethical to name names beforehand -- we will talk to everyone first...This is difficult but reliable.

It sounds as if they're ready and raring to go. It's going to happen unless the firestorm beforehand burns them enough that they don't go through with it.

It's unclear what level of analysis is being done beforehand to determine appropriate levels of security for particular systems. In most businesses, it's a waste of resources to protect every system to the maximum extent possible. Some systems just aren't that mission-critical.

Anytime you're chosen by other people in the league, it's an honor to go and face the best in lacrosse. I'll be just as nervous beforehand as if it's a real game.

I knew beforehand it would be close because we clashed a few times last year. I knew he was going to be close to me, but I just stuck in there and gave it all I had at the end.

Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand

I had no idea it was such a big deal. We were touring in Japan beforehand and people kept telling us they were flying from Japan to be at Coachella.

I owe all my success in life to having always been a quarter of an hour beforehand

If you don't practice situations beforehand in which you have to defend your lead, you won't necessarily know what to do in match situations.

Instead of using his position for revenge and for real gain, he decided to forgive those who had pressed him beforehand and take care of the country.

I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

Becoming a parent is like taking a trip to a foreign country: you have no way of knowing beforehand what you'll encounter once you get there.

I believe decisions should be made in daylight, explanations for them should be given, consultations about them should have been had beforehand and the burden of that decision should have been in the hands of the faculty.

A lot of my directing we do in the rehearsal process. We don't want to start discussing the character motivation and stuff like that on the set, so we do a lot of that stuff beforehand in rehearsal.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving- how not to do it.

The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards