All Quotes

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
‐‐ Halle Berry

By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.
‐‐ Brittany Howard

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
‐‐ Ace Frehley

By the time I'm 40, the hope is that I'll be solidly in daytime television and producing the various other experts we've brought along the way.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
‐‐ Grimes

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.
‐‐ John Scalzi

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.
‐‐ Herbie Mann

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!
‐‐ Edward Furlong

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
‐‐ Sidney Altman

By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.
‐‐ Christopher Fowler

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
‐‐ Vaclav Klaus

By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost two years, and writing, I have discovered, is a muscle: if it isn't exercised, it will atrophy.
‐‐ Jane Green

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
‐‐ Jill McCorkle

By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.
‐‐ Cynthia Voigt

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
‐‐ Richard Greenberg

By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders.
‐‐ Anne M. Mulcahy

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
‐‐ Mackenzie Phillips

By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
‐‐ Natasha Little

By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up.
‐‐ Alexandra Shipp

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean

By the time I was 10 or 13, I'd learned the world capitals.
‐‐ Jake Sullivan

By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.
‐‐ Judy Blume

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
‐‐ Joshua Lederberg

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.'
‐‐ Nicholas Hoult

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
‐‐ John Cena

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
‐‐ Billy Bragg

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.
‐‐ Michael Mann

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.
‐‐ Matthew Nable

By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
‐‐ Eric Bristow

By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
‐‐ Rachel Hunter

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.
‐‐ Chris Rock

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun