By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
‐‐ Robert Bly
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
‐‐ John Updike
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
‐‐ Zelda Fitzgerald
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
‐‐ Robert Dallek
By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.
‐‐ Damian Marley
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.
‐‐ Lawrence Lessig
By the time 'Buffy' finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.
‐‐ Seanan McGuire
By the time buzzwords appear in the popular press, there's probably a bunch of us in the development trenches pulling out our hair and weeping.
‐‐ Molly Holzschlag
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She'd given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a 'Life' write-up of her own.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister
By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.
‐‐ Jim Cummings
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff
By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.
‐‐ Artie Lange
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
‐‐ Natalie Cole
By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald
By the time I auditioned for 'Aliens in America,' the July 7 bombing had happened in London. So I'd had those experiences where I would get onto the Tube, and people would get off. So there was a lot about Raja that I understood.
‐‐ Adhir Kalyan
By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures to try to deal with the inflation.
‐‐ Paul A. Volcker
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
‐‐ Albert Maltz
By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
‐‐ Randy Harrison
By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds
By the time I came to the States, I really understood how a magazine works. I came to 'Vogue' as creative director, and three years later I went back to London to be editor in chief of British 'Vogue.'
‐‐ Anna Wintour
By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.
‐‐ David Morse
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw
By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!
‐‐ Cheech Marin
By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.
‐‐ Donald Cram
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox
By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.
‐‐ John Fleming
By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
‐‐ Eric Bana
By the time I finished the first series, 'Marvel Universe vs. Punisher,' I knew that there was a lot more story to tell.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry
By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
‐‐ Tanya Tucker
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
‐‐ Esther Williams
By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.
‐‐ Adam Driver
By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.
‐‐ Maynard Webb
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.
‐‐ Robert Moog
By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture.
‐‐ Jean Craighead George
By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
‐‐ Irv Kupcinet
By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
‐‐ Jay-Z
By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.
‐‐ Shirley Temple
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
‐‐ John Newcombe
By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.
‐‐ Rick Moranis
By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding
By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.
‐‐ Nell Newman
By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Alexis Denisof
By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas
By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.
‐‐ Lynn Shelton
By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
‐‐ Jane Leavy
By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.
‐‐ Bruce Braley
By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.
‐‐ Michael Strahan