On Time Quotes

Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.

I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

I dream of a Digital India where farmers are empowered with real-time information to be connected with Global Markets.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

I'll have my way, In my own time, I'll have my say, My star will shine...

I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

If you never bluff, you'll rarely get called. If you bluff all the time, you'll always get called.

I suppose it is one time when you can really use your name to raise money. And if I am going to use it for anything, what more of a better opportunity (than) to use it here.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.