On Time Quotes

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that?

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

I think all women want to feel sexy and confident yet comfortable at the same time in what they wear.

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

I suppose you can't take kids into consideration all the time, but I just wish there could be a bit of flexibility.

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying.

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

I've learned a long time ago to never say never about the band Kansas.

My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.

I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.

Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.

It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

Paper buys time. Steel buys freedom.

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt.

Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.