My Time Quotes

My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

Jerry Seinfeld, he was doing Letterman show all the time, so he kind of had an excuse, that people know the jokes already. He didn't have time to do stand-up. A guy like me, I have no excuses.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Diesel fuel is too important to our farmers at harvest time and to the truckers delivering commerce across Nebraska to allow a bureaucratic hurdle to slow the delivery of fuel.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

First time I kissed you, I lost my legs.

I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

People in every direction No words exchanged No time to exchange And all the little ants are marching Red and black antennas waving They all do it the same We all do it the same way

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

Probably most of the time I watch children's movies because my kids are on the bus, so it requires them.

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

I have a fun time, doing the meet and greets, the pictures and the autographs. Every show I've ever done, lends itself to that kind of thing. My convention life has legs.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.