On Time Quotes

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.