On Time Quotes

Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

You can allow yourself 72 hours of wallowing time. Then you've got to get into the gym, stop eating the ice cream and move on.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to face it.

It feels strange to have spent much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

This is Huntress placing Panta four-five, four-six on battle stations, I repeat battle stations, time one-two-four-one. Authenticate hotel romeo, all parties acknowledge with initials.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

Doesn't becoming imply time?

At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'

I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

There's so many people that dislike you all the time, so when somebody loves anything that you do, you go 'Yes! Finally!' Even if it means the dyn-o-mite thing.

In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

I will still carry on changing all the time.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.

We have to choose to slow down, to actually see the time and space that we are in. To truly see people and accept them in their priceless moments.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

Every time I open a new restaurant, I wake up in the middle of the night moaning about bread and water. I dream I am in the middle of the dining room, and I am panicked.

I've learned a long time ago, you don't say anything for absolutely certain.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.

Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.