On Time Quotes

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

Am I surprised that Joe Klein [pseudonymous author of Primary Colors which he denied writing] lied? No, because in my opinion reporters lie all the time.

I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.