Quotes on time

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

Author: Aaliyah

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

Author: Aaliyah

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Author: Aaliyah

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Author: Alvar Aalto

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Author: Hank Aaron

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

Author: Lynn Abbey

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Author: Lynn Abbey

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

Author: Lynn Abbey

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Author: Grace Abbott

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Author: Jack Abbott

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

Author: Abdallah Abdallah II

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

Author: John Abercrombie

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

Author: John Abercrombie

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

Author: John Abizaid

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Author: F. Abraham

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

Author: Casey Abrams

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Author: Creighton Abrams

Time wounds all heels.

Author: Jane Ace

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Author: Dean Acheson

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Author: Dean Acheson

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

Author: Kathy Acker

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

Author: Jensen Ackles

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Author: Harold Acton

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

Author: John Acton

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

Author: Amy Adams

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Author: Bryan Adams

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

Author: Don Adams

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Author: Douglas Adams

Time is bunk.

Author: Douglas Adams

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Author: Franklin Adams

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Author: George Adams

The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.

Author: Gerry Adams

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

Author: Samuel Adams

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Author: Scott Adams

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

Author: Will Adams

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

Author: Will Adams

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

Author: George Ade

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Author: George Ade

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

Author: George Ade

I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

Author: Kate Adie

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Author: Felix Adler

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Author: Mortimer Adler

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

Author: Mortimer Adler

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Author: Renata Adler

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

Author: Stella Adler

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

Author: Theodor Adorno

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Author: Theodor Adorno

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Author: Theodor Adorno

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Author: Theodor Adorno

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Author: Aeschylus

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Author: Aeschylus

Time brings all things to pass.

Author: Aeschylus

But time growing old teaches all things.

Author: Aeschylus

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Author: Ben Affleck

When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.

Author: Ben Affleck

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

Author: Andre Agassi

Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.

Author: Andre Agassi

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Author: Andre Agassi

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Author: James Agate

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.

Author: James Agee

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

Author: Shmuel Agnon

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Author: Clay Aiken

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Author: Alvin Ailey

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

Author: Alvin Ailey

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.

Author: Damon Albarn

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Author: Edward Albee

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

Author: Josef Albers

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Author: Josef Albers

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

Author: Josef Albers

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

Author: Edward Albert

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

Author: Alan Alda

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Author: Alexander Alekhine

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Author: Jean Alesi

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

Author: Archibald Alexander

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

Author: Jason Alexander

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Author: Samuel Alexander

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

Author: Sasha Alexander

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

Author: Sasha Alexander

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

Author: Sasha Alexander

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

Author: Shaun Alexander

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

Author: Shaun Alexander

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Author: Sherman Alexie

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Author: Hannes Alfven

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

Author: Ayaan Ali

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

Author: Samuel Alito

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

Author: Iyad Allawi

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

Author: Debbie Allen

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.

Author: Debbie Allen

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Author: Debbie Allen

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

Author: Debbie Allen

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Author: Fred Allen

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

Author: George Allen

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

Author: Marty Allen

At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year.

Author: Richard Allen

I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it.

Author: Rick Allen

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

Author: Ted Allen

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

Author: Tom Allen

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Author: Woody Allen

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

Author: Woody Allen

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

Author: Kirstie Alley

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

Author: Kirstie Alley

Autumn's the mellow time.

Author: William Allingham

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

Author: Mose Allison

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

Author: Mose Allison

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

Author: Mose Allison

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

Author: Eric Allman

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.

Author: Gregg Allman

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

Author: Chris Allsburg

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

Author: Steve Almond

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

Author: Fernando Alonso

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.

Author: Herb Alpert

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Author: Stewart Alsop

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

Author: Carol Alt

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

Author: Lauren Ambrose

Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.

Author: Jeff Ament

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

Author: Aldrich Ames

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

Author: Aldrich Ames

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Author: A. Ammons

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Author: A. Ammons

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Author: Cleveland Amory

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Author: Tori Amos

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

Author: Tori Amos

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

Author: David Amram

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

Author: Namie Amuro

I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think.

Author: Namie Amuro

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Author: Hans Andersen

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

Author: Anthony Anderson

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.

Author: Benny Anderson

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.

Author: Chris Anderson

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

Author: Elizabeth Anderson

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

Author: Eric Anderson

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Author: Gillian Anderson

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

Author: Gillian Anderson

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.

Author: Gillian Anderson

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

Author: Harry Anderson

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

Author: John Anderson

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

Author: Kevin Anderson

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

Author: Kevin Anderson