On Time Quotes

Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.

No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.

During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.

The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don't shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.

..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

I clip coupons all the time. Why should you pay more for something that someone else is paying less for?

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

I only date college guys.” “You don’t know any college guys,” Kami pointed out. Angela’s gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. “Which leaves me with more time for napping.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

I'm always in those tabloids where they show who's badly dressed. It's funny, because each time I'm getting my picture taken, I'm thinking, This is a nice outfit.

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?