On Time Quotes
Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.
In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.
Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.
A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!
- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.
Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.
I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.
I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.
I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.
The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.
I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time
Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins
In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'
Approaching people is not - it's ironic that it's what I do - but it's not necessarily what I enjoy doing. Later on, I'm fine. Once we get talking I have a great time but not in the beginning.
I'm sure you're always working in your head, but when you're actually physically working, you're in your studio, right? For me, it changes all the time. That's something I really love.
One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.
I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.
It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.
As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.
As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.
The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.
I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.
I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.
Staying in shape does not come easily, especially as you get older and you don't have as much time or energy to exercise.
I try to run every time I'm in a new city or country - you just put your shoes on and go. It's very therapeutic, and it also works for me when I want to lose weight.