You shouldn’t even be writing this story if you haven’t heard me play live. You can’t write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

When I was a teenager, I did one animated series back when I was on ‘General Hospital.’ It was 1971 or ’72. Then I didn’t do animation until ‘Batman.’

I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I’m about to write that I’m really...

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

We have so much lung capacity that we don’t even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

I’m one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It’s just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It’s like I’m on the verge the whole...

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in ‘The Trusty’ was going for water, I did not...

You can’t put off being young until you retire.

I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15,...

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions – although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until the ’80s.

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn’t until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able...

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Well, I didn’t really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn’t pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after...

Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information...

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New...

I wasn’t really comfortable reading until I was 12.

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on...

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn’t do drugs or drink or smoke.

In China, we don’t consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what’s underneath the skin.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Maybe I was 7 – I probably am exaggerating a little – and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn’t know...

It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be...

I was in Paris, Milan and London from ’89 until ’91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there’s so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age...

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn’t until I got to college that I said, ‘Oh! This is what it’s all about.’ And then I became an A student. I...

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

I love TV now, and ‘Modern Family,’ but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not...

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn’t been any such thing.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during...

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

It wasn’t until I left that I realised it’s not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I...

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won’t be able to function properly.

I’m the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn’t stop until it’s finished.

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...

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn’t something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it....

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

You can’t do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you’re in.