My Time Quotes
Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.
Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.
If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.
It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
If we fail to give our time with those we love, one day we will live to regret it.
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.
I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.
Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.
I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?
Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.
It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.
I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
The angels have never made it a secret that they are with us, they want us to know that they are here, and they do their best to give us signs all the time...
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.
As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.
I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.
Well, it used to be Kobe Bryant... the second best all time.... now, I have a new favorite player to play against... my former teammate, LeBron James.
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.