On Time Quotes

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the '80s. -p.11

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn’t even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

I weighed the pros and cons of both, and college outweighed the pro ranks at the time and I'm definitely glad I made the choice to come to Oregon State because I'm a better player for it.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.

Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.