On Time Quotes

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

Um, yeah 15-year-olds don't lead at an LPGA event all the time. But like I said, I'm very surprised. I've been playing really good golf and I'm confident with my game.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

I just want my audiences to be entertained and feel like they're part of the show. I want to show them a good time and create an experience they're going to enjoy.

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time

The next time that we meet we meet as enemies!

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

I'm structured with time.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently do crafts. She shook her head.

Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts.

Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

I'll be peeing like a champion in no time

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.

Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

There's always time to launch your dreams

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty?