By The Time Quotes

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions.

The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.

My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called a friend, ever.

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Eve, we're going to be married in a few days." The jittering started again, big time. "Yeah." "If he keeps looking at you like that, I'm going to have to hurt him.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

Why?” Eve leaned forward. “Sincerely, I’ve always wanted to know why anyone buys multiple pairs of shoes at a time.” “If I have to explain it, the joy is lost.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.

Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.

As a working mom, I struggle to find time to work out and go for runs. I usually run two to three times a week and work out with a trainer once a week. I try to go for a longer run on Sundays.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

I got a call from an agent to come to New York City, and write for the 'Ford Star Revue.' Because at the time there wasn't much 'national television'.

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

Jesse Jackson was spending time with his family, or families.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

The only time a bachelor's bed is made is when it's in the factory.

I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.

I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."