On Time Quotes

If I have to win one game, I’d have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

Tragedy plus time equals humor.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll.

As far as I'm concerned, the happiest time of my life is now. There's a future and I can't wait to get to it.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.

I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

What will always remain is love, passion and family time.

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

The first time you hear the word "Daddy," I don't care who you are, your heart just melts.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

I’d say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

The women on that list are amazing, so to be on it for the first time and have this position is crazy. I'm not one to walk around and strut like Miss Thing, so I'm pretty humbled.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

I'm extremely unbearable. You know, I'm narcissistic and at the same time I'm very charming - I think.

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.

It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.

Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?