On Time Quotes
Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.
It's easier to be healthy in Hawaii than it is, almost anywhere else I've lived. You spend a lot of time outside, in the ocean and on the beach.
I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.
I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.
This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania
This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same time a simple playing area and the whole world. And Fate always wins.
Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.
That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.
She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.
Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.
Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.
Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.
But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.
It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.
Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.
Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.
I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.
I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.
Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.
That’s it,” she said, balling her hands in fists. “I’m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor.
Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.
In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.
I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.
You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.
Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.
You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.
There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.
Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.