By The Time Quotes

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

You always have to be available for people, and you have to be clearly stating what you want to see, in so many disciplines, all at the same time.

I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

Time's waters will not ebb nor stay.

What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

The more times you do something, the more likely it is you're going to get it wrong.

I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.