On Time Quotes

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.

Only God gets things right the first time.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Time is a face on the water.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I'm outside, writing, I'm also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

We dream every night, all the time.

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.

I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.