On Time Quotes

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the same time, I don't want to be the 40-year-old DJ in the club.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.

You cant go on winning all the time.

I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to give him everything without hesitation.

It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago. This was just a big win for us.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And that changes over time, as we change, right?

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know hes going to be around the ball all the time.

There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.