On Time Quotes

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

I wouldn't mind taking a chance at Real Time, I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.

I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

We live in a very inspirational point in time. Things are progressing faster and further than ever before. What inspires me most is the world we live in adapting at such a rapid rate.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.

I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.

I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe visualize it, but leave it alone. A

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

In my career, whether it's a big or a small movie, when I've worked on something for a long time, like [Ivan] Drago in Rocky IV, they start to take on a life of their own.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

My favorite movie of all time is probably Apocalypse Now.

I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.