On Time Quotes

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

I'm so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with, or work with. That's such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with them.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven't missed a thing, I was just killing time 'til you got here.

It's important to make time for yourself.

Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.

Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.

I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.

Don Karnage-he's one of my all-time favorites. He's so brash and so bold and so arrogant-and he just doesn't know what he's doing.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

Want to know why women don't blink during foreplay? Not enough time.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

Happiness is time spent with a friend and looking forward to sharing time with them again.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.