On Time Quotes

I was never interested in anything, particularly. I didn't get through school. I was a layabout. So, I started working at a theater to earn some money, as a part-time job.

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.

There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time, they are among us, with us. Angels are real. And they are here.

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.

I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - Survey The sun-warm heaven.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.

I'm really scary in reality. Most of the time.

It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, every time you have any kind of Twilight-related event or anything.

Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.

Every time I would say put a baby in every scene.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

If the president finds time to help the mentally retarded, what are you doing that's so important? [Written underneath:] Working to get them out of Washington.

You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?

I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.