On Time Quotes

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

Any time the president talks, you listen.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.