All Quotes

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
‐‐ Douglass North

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.
‐‐ Allan McNish

It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
‐‐ Barbara Cooney

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo

It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!
‐‐ Allyson Felix

It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time.
‐‐ Joey Dunlop

It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.
‐‐ Andrew Oliver

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.
‐‐ Elias Hicks

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.
‐‐ Jimmy Connors

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
‐‐ Sam Levenson

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
‐‐ Hans Jonas

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
‐‐ Hans Jonas

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
‐‐ Hubert H. Humphrey

It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.
‐‐ Frank James

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
‐‐ Jefferson Davis

It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.
‐‐ Leon Askin

It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.
‐‐ Gunter Blobel

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
‐‐ Dinah Sheridan

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?
‐‐ Petina Gappah

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.
‐‐ Denis Law

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.
‐‐ Michael Apted

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
‐‐ P. D. James

It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
‐‐ Samuel P. Huntington

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
‐‐ Samantha Bee

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.
‐‐ Michael Behe

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.
‐‐ John Eldredge

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.
‐‐ Satyajit Ray

It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
‐‐ Jack Zipes

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
‐‐ Felicity Jones

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.
‐‐ Jonathan Lethem

It was only by luck and the blessings of God that my soldiers did not encounter an assault, that we did not run over an IED. And to dishonor our service by saying we're not worthy of being called combat veterans is insulting to the majority of men and women who serve their country honorably.
‐‐ Joni Ernst

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
‐‐ Elliott Carter

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.
‐‐ Trisha Goddard

It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And then we threw it on our record as well.
‐‐ Kerry King

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.
‐‐ Poppy Delevingne