On Time Quotes

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Every football player knows when his time is up.

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."

We in the 25th hour, It's now or never. We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever. In the end, time waits for no man... What's your plan?

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

I want to learn more. I want to know more. That's what taking this time is about. I'm curious about so many things, but haven't had occasion to be exposed to them enough to really appreciate them.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

If your objective is to tell time, you will not buy a mechanical watch. You have the time on your phone.

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

A long time ago, I remember having cooperated with Shirley Bassey and I will never forget this moment which I shared with her while playing for and with her.

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time.

Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all.

Effectiveness is best measured by results over time.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

No, no. It's always a good time for you to call, Roza.

I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.

The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.

I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against people's opinion.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.

It's definitely fun to play something you're not, which is always a good time. Who doesn't want to get to act like a jerk or a douche, every now and then?

Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.