My Time Quotes

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.

Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true.

There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?

I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'

I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller dittos.

I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.

You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government.

It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?

We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.

I think Donald Trump is a preeminent multitasker, can handle multiple things at one time, and when he's committed to doing something, nothing stops him or gets in his way.

The right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for, rent-a-mob type activity.

I cringe every time republican senators say, "our Democratic friends." Chuck Schumer, if he is your friend, it's a problem. I mean, it shouldn't be, but we know it is.

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries.

We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

The time is going to come when [people] are going to really regret this, and they're gonna want to be within [Donald] Trump's orb at some point, 'cause this country's gonna take off.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.

I want Apple to continue to innovate. I want them to be on time. I want them to be leaders. And my big concern with Apple recently has been they can't build what they're designing.

Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.

Most of the new jobs that people are getting are part time because of Obamacare. Obamacare is falling out exactly as it was designed.

I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.

Hillary Clinton trashes the banks every time she opens her mouth, and yet she made $21 million in two years making speeches to those very banks that she trashes every day.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.

If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served.

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

The thing about films is you learn new stuff all the time. You think you can get to a point where you've got it all down. But then another, different situation arises.

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.

The most valuable and least replacable resource is time.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.