My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
You never know what you can do till you try.
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died.
At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.
My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!