On Time Quotes

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.

As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.

Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

I love Rihanna, Rihanna seems like a fun person to be friends with, she seems like a fun time to be [around].

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

So many boys, so little time.

I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time. You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself. What was wrong with me?

Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.

We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.