My Time Quotes

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

Take time to thank your body.

The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.

Those who never have time do least

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

There is no time like the pleasant.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is?

Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that."

You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.