My Time Quotes

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Love me, and tell me so sometimes.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

...and time becomes a forgotten detail.

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.

I grew up in a big movie house, we watched movies all the time, so I had an awareness at a very young age that that was a job that you could have.

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

God didn't have time to create a nobody.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

Time, on its own, heals nothing.

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

Any time that we have time to take off, we love being home.

Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow." "Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.

We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it.