On Time Quotes

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

I'm just a guy. I get treated like I'm famous but I don't take it seriously. I take the time people take out to check me out very, very seriously.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

All things flow, nothing abides.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

I could eat black walnut all the time, it's not a flavor of the week!

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.