On Time Quotes
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.
I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.
I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.
My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.
If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.
When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like."
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'
I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.
We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.
But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.
The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.
For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.
How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.
Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more.
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.
Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.