On Time Quotes

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

In a weird way scientists understand things on a higher level but it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of time.

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.

The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

It's nice to be able to challenge myself by playing real people. But at the same time it utilizes a different part of the brain to just invent new things.

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn’t get, but that’s not the case anymore.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.

You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.