On Time Quotes

While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.

I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

I don't have time to worry about looking cool.

I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.

I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

Whats fun about being an actress is you change all the time.

Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.

My first thought in moments of darkness and doubt is, "Who can I call? Who can I share this with?" Connection and sharing saves me every time.

Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.

I was terrified of being on television - and also I overcompensated, I'm sure, because I know I did this in my personal life too at the time, when I was younger.

We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

I think money isn't any good sitting around, so I spend some time in the shoe department at Saks.

You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

I do want to get married again, and I want to have kids. And this time, I really want to do it right.

I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.

I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.