Quotes About Time

Players have a very short window of opportunity and they're just interested in what they can earn.

My plan of going to Tokyo has gone out of the window, but I was able to spend three to four months with my family and I've never been able to do that before.

I used to go with my dad to wash windows at a grocery store on Sunday nights when it was closed because they didn't want anyone to be washing the windows when it was open.

I always tell young people when I'm trying to encourage them, 'You have certain windows in your life, and you have to take advantage of it. You gotta jump through because they will shut on you.'

It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

I think true love - love, wine and beauty, they better with age.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to it entirely differently.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

Wine gets better with time. So does art.

If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

Days off are few and far between in the restaurant business. But on an hour off, I like to have a glass of wine with my wife.

Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.