#by the time

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#attempts #became #by the time #college #discrimination

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. ↗

— Don Marquis

#bartender #before #by the time #drink #else

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies! ↗

— James McAvoy

#by the time #considered #i #importantly #ladies

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#by the time #early #go #i #i am

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#drive #experiences #get #i #life

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks. ↗

— Lou Thesz

#atlanta #bucks #buy #by the time #dollars

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#been #build #by the time #come #company

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#business #by the time #goin #gone #got

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#away #because #by the time #close #college