By The Time Quotes

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

The right time to die is never exactly now.

The increase in chemicals and the increase in technology, like wi-fi and cell phone use that's going through our bodies all of the time is something that is big on my radar.

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I spent time on set in New York and Berlin sitting next to Steven Spielberg while he worked, which was the biggest thrill of my life.

Mobile is something I think about all the time now.

One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

Chapel services on race day have a calming effect. It's a nice time for us to worship and try to get the message and hear some music and have a little fellowship together before we get to racing.

It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything.

People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

What we found is that Valentino is actually a tremendous star - almost a movie star, really, because he plays himself all the time. The camera loves him.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I got behind the camera.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

I'm almost 40, so it's an awkward time in my career. You kind of hope it comes through and, if not, I'll be a waiter. Awesome.