On Time Quotes

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'

You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.

I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a designer and we tried to morph all my inspirations into one story.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

There's always a little bit of disappointment. At the same time, number one, [Hillary Clinton] made a great choice. Secondly, I'm 41. And so I feel like - that I'm excited about the years to come.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

The reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don't know everything. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing! But most of the time you can't even admit that, though.

The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?

When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.

I travel by myself a lot. Most of the time I'm by myself.

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.

Take your time. Some of these fad diets and quick fixes, they might be quick, but you're going to crash and burn.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.

Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people.

I've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.

For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

I don't have alot of people to talk to. Not alot of people are worth my time.

You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.