By The Time Quotes

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

She's saving the world one fashion disaster at a time!

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.

When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

I think music all the time.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.

Every time I go out there I expect to win.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.

All I do is see all these incidents of [Hillary Clinton's] coughing all the time. I don't know what it is.

Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work.

No time limit in Iraq; stay until we achieve stability.

Our bodies are the time machine.

Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.