By The Time Quotes

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.

Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

Fashion is what time looks like.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.

I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.

There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape.

Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort!

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.