By The Time Quotes

I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.

When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

The first time I showed the tattoo it was big news in the newspaper. 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake!

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

It's nice to do nice things, innit? I'm a nice person, deep down, I do nice things all the time.

That didn't really matter, how you judge how successful you are is basically when you turn up to do a gig and people come and have a good time.

I highly recommend time to yourself.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.

Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.

We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to him/her, but he/she also hates you.

I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.

Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.