Predecessor Quotes

You'd like Kafka, one of my predecessors. - Anna Paquin

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent. - Renny Harlin

You are guilty of murder. Your predecessors made decisions which killed an innocent man. - Robert Pickett

While time is needed to fairly and accurately gauge how well any president ranks with his predecessors, Bush starts with a ranking that could hardly be lower. - Thomas Kelly

When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, this is a much more low-key papacy to date. - Chester Gillis

When you are successful, the younger kids sit there and watch the older kids accomplish some special things. It makes them work especially hard in the offseason and when they become juniors and seniors, hopefully they can match the success of their predecessors. - Brian Foley

When they were refurbishing buildings, they had no compunction about taking statues of a predecessor and burying them. - Peter Brand

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business. - Jeffrey Skilling

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out. - George Osborne

We will receive the pilgrim Cross, coming from Cologne, and remember with grateful hearts, a year after his death, my great predecessor, John Paul II. - Benedict XVI