On Time Quotes

One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.

The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.

When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.

Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

Get face time with the customers.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Time can tick when there is no clock.

God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.