On Time Quotes

I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."

It is impossible for me to waste my time in helping another person.

When you feel the need to have the right person show up in your life, affirm: 'I know the right person is arriving in divine order at precisely the perfect time.'

Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

Since the dawn of time every one will die, Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

Every time I run, it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK.

When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

Time is a currency you can only spend once.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.