On Time Quotes

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I like to be comfortable but I also like to look put together all the time.

I don't wear dresses all the time - it's nice to save those moments for certain occasions and to make it feel extra special.

Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time.

Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

It is not about being thin. It is about staying healthy and fit. I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do. I want to be walking around at 90.

Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.

After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

It's flattering that people want to know so much about me and want to take the time to make up that many things about me.

I know that I may never be a star. This could all just go away at any time. I know that just because I have a record out doesn't mean I'm going to make it

We don't have enough American troops inside of Iraq to destroy ISIL any time soon.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

I Rushed to get back before it was time.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language.

You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to go, you also want it to be a character that you'd be interested in playing for a long time.

The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.

Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.