By The Time Quotes

It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.

By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

I'm most excited about going swimming and riding water slides, shooting off fireworks, and playing basketball, and things like that. That's what I really love doing. Summer is a great time.

I am always excited for gaps of time where I can actually hang out with my friends.

I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.

My husband can not f****ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.

I love kids. It's amazing that I have the opportunity to hang out with my stepson all the time.

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

Time will unfold its leaves.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.

I still think that it's time for something that reflects the American people.

It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In an uninterrupted world, I think we could have each of the tales finished, soup to nuts, in a week.

Too much down time makes us miss home.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life

I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.

I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

I study the Bible and spend time on the Internet.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.