On Time Quotes

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities.

When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.

No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

During a lot of years I would write music while playing video games at the same time.

I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.

Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.

Everything to do with time is hideous.

Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the beginning of time.

You can change anything about yourself quite quickly. All you have to do is give up the belief system that says that it takes a long time to change.

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.

If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.

I have a lot of ideas for art. And it is really - I don't really have time to do them all.