On Time Quotes

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

True ownership of anything requires time.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Time is clay; make something.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

It took me a long time to get to where I'm at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.