On Time Quotes

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

Family time is really important to me.

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.

I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry.

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.

Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!.

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

this time has finished me.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

"It's an old habit of mine, Wal'r," said the Captain, "any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal'r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground."

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.