On Time Quotes

Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

I don't feel I'm a diva in any way, but, like, I just can't bring myself to reuse eyelashes. I think it's gross. And so I only use them one time. Is that bad? I feel like it's bad!

The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person

I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.

In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.

Everything also calms down with the influx of social media, there's so much happening all the time.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

Time is the stuff of which life is made.