On Time Quotes

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there must be a time of consolidating before the next forward surge. Accept this as part of the process and never become downhearted.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

I'll take a foot fetish with a man and his wife over a foot fetish with a man and his mistress any day. I don't care what they do. You go with it with your marriage and have a good time.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

Time burns but leaves no ashes.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

I really asked myself, “Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?” That’s what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

My grandmother's brain was dead, but her heart was still beating. It was the first time we ever had a democrat in the family.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

If I had my ministry over again, I would devote far more time to the ministry of comfort and encouragement.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.