On Time Quotes

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

Breaking Bad is one of my favorite shows, of all time.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.

So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time?

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

Time elaborately thrown away.

We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.

You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!