The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

- Carl Levin

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

- Evan Thomas

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

- Eduardo Chillida

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

- Eugene Jarecki

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

- Eric Maskin

Assad wanted Israel to capitulate in advance to all his demands. Only then would he agree to enter into substantive negotiations. I couldn't agree to this.

- Ehud Barak

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

- Edward Gibbon

The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.

- Dana Stabenow

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

- Dan Shechtman

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

- Chaim Potok

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

- Aaron Siskind

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

- Clayton M. Christensen

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

- Bo Diddley

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

- Beatrice Dalle

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

- Ben Bernanke

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.

- Ann Rule

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

- Andrew Scott

But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

In theater, we know a scheduled season months in advance.

- Allison Tolman