On Time Quotes

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].

I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.

I would choose freedom over comfort every time.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

I hear that in my head all the time now: 'Why don't you go and see?'.

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."

A lot of people believe, including Howard Dean is looking at this, that the Democratic party demands a full-time chair.

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.

The advance of freedom is the great story of our time

If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.