Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings.
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.
We don't want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.
Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.
Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.
I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.
In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.
Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
I don't believe in New Year's resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don't wait until the New Year.
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.
I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.
I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.
I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen.
Think until it hurts.
No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.
The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.
I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
