On Time Quotes
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.
People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.
I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.
There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.
I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.
the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.
I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.
What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.
The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.
I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.
Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.
Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.
I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!
Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!
When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?
When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.
Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.
Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.
A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.