Until Quotes

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

Ironically, it is not until we are prepared to let go of something that we can really enjoy it.

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.