On Time Quotes

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

When it was time for a player to go, he went.

If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.

I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies… I love women. I love to spend more time with them.

When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.