On Time Quotes

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

I think it’s interesting to me to talk to people who don’t agree with me all the time.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them.

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

Time is just quantified eternity.

Time will explain.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

The past is obdurate.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.

The '60s were an amazing time.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

The work of memory collapses time.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Time itself made all things rare.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.