Quotes About Time

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

When you become the coach, you need to give at least 200 to 250 days a year to the team and that's a lot of work. I don't think I can manage so much work away from Pakistan, from my family.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!

Panama is very close to all the points, six hours from Los Angeles, four hours from New York, 10 hours over to Europe. And I can live on a beach. I just ended up there and I liked it.

You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time.

Papa died when he was 77.

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I spent about eight months of my year on 'Death in Paradise', so it doesn't leave a massive amount of time to do other stuff.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.

We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.