On Time Quotes

People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.

I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

When you're going broke, it's best to have a great time.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

It's kind of hard to find something that will get your juices flowing if you're somewhat critical. I have a hard time finding great things for myself in '94 and certainly in '95.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.