#by the time

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#back #bolt #burglar #by the time #chain

By the time we've made it, we've had it. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#by the time #had #made

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#by the time #done #else #family #fans

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#anymore #by the time #get #give #got

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price. ↗

— Jim Henson

#by the time #contract #first #got #higher

In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#avengers #blonde #blonde hair #by the time #come

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#become #by the time #capital #capital punishment #civilised

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity. ↗

— Halle Berry

#had #i #left #lot #school

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old. ↗

— John Corbett

#even #i #never #old #play

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#became #broker #by the time #estate #had