I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.
When Shanthi Ranganathan was the featured turn on ‘Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan,’ we learned she didn’t allow him to have a girlfriend until he’d finished university, and she learned – to her unfeigned horror – that he used to sneak girls into the house when she was out.
Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal – if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.
I’d never read ‘Lord of the Rings’ until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn’t really know it was a frightfully famous book.
Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won’t see until the bear market comes.
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
Painting was always something I thought I’d do once I retired. But then, about five or six years ago, a good mate passed away suddenly at the age of 50 and it made me realise that if I put off doing stuff until I retire, I might not ever get there.
Don’t let nobody tell you that you can’t do it. Love what you do until you don’t love it anymore. Nothing’s impossible.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can’t, and I don’t want to.
Persistent in life? I think, yes, I am. I’m going to do something until I get it right.
Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.
I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.
Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down – they were still there, although no one was in them.
I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn’t want to be touched. I couldn’t shut out background noise. I didn’t talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, ‘Casino Royale’ dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don’t want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
I didn’t go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.
Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.
A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which – if she wasn’t smart enough to camouflage herself – she generally paid the price.
Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn’t know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.
We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster’ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.
If you put a frog in boiling water, it’ll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it’ll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England’s gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.
You’re not a loser in anything until you quit. Don’t quit.
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‘What the hell am I doing?’
An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.
I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging – not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That’s something new for Russia.
I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn’t until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.
You know, I’m a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible mudslide in Hollywood and I lost my collection, but I was also at an early age the voice of ‘Jonny Quest;’ it was a cartoon; so I am kind of a latent fan boy.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren’t in very good shape.
A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
I want to play football until my body says, ‘You can’t run anymore: you’re dead.’
I want to wait to have sex until I’m married.
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
