By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.
‐‐ Brit Morin
By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Frank Frazetta
By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'
‐‐ Marlee Matlin
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige
By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.
‐‐ Ravi Zacharias
By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.
‐‐ Ben Lewin
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
‐‐ Albert Maltz
By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks
By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.
‐‐ Maureen Forrester
By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
‐‐ Annette Bening
By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.
‐‐ Clyde Tombaugh
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
‐‐ Dick Cavett
By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!
‐‐ Alfred Enoch
By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini
By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
‐‐ Cameron Mackintosh
By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.
‐‐ Carrie Preston
By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.
‐‐ Eric Flint
By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
‐‐ Jay Parini
By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.
‐‐ Claire Danes
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin
By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman
By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
‐‐ John Logan
By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.
‐‐ Marg Helgenberger
By the time most people file for bankruptcy, their credit is already trashed, they have a high debt-to-income ratio - a key indicator lenders look at - and they've likely defaulted on more than a few accounts.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky
By the time my children are born, I know it's possible that they can grow up in a world where they don't understand that there were ever any dividers between people and why we have the issues we do today. That's my goal in this life.
‐‐ Jason Mraz
By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.
‐‐ Sean Paul
By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren
By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.
‐‐ Saul David
By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.
‐‐ John Podhoretz
By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland
By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
‐‐ James Surowiecki
By the time of the Civil War, there were many kinds of apples growing across the United States, but most of them didn't taste very good, and as a rule, people didn't eat them. Cider was cheaper to make than beer, and many settlers believed fermented drinks were safer than water. Everyone drank hard cider.
‐‐ John Seabrook
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
‐‐ Margaret Mahy
By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.
‐‐ John O. Brennan
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
‐‐ Levon Helm
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman
By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'
‐‐ Lena Olin
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
‐‐ Erin McKean
By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
‐‐ Brad Pitt
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
‐‐ Rob Zombie
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
‐‐ Marie Dressler
By the time we're adults, our ideas have solidified. So I wanted to write for a younger audience, who would perhaps love heroes from other cultures.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
‐‐ Calamity Jane