The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.
The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.
We believe no evil till the evil's done
It's going to be over fairly soon; it goes by quick. Even if I live till I'm one hundred, it's quick.
Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette. . . Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.
WAIT TILL THEY SEE THESE ARMS IN AFRICA. THEY LOOK BIG ENOUGH TO ME
But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede.
I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.
When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.
I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.
It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.
Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong.
We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.