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Quotes About Time

My early memories of 'Who' are clouded by time and confused by repeats and reissues. I have no direct recollection of the first two Doctors and none at all of the first season of the Pertwee era. By the last two seasons of the Third Doctor, I was properly hooked.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I had a fantastic time at United. I have been back to watch games. It was over 14 years of my life. It is a third of my life I spent at Old Trafford. That's a lot of time, and it feels like home.
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
During the season, the teams play every third day. That's a huge workload with some long journeys. I think, in football, we need more time to rest and recover.
~ Toni Kroos
New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.
~ Kat Edmonson
When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. It is not the time to use and throw this planet and we need to explore deep within more than without. Space exploration should be used to quench human thirst.
~ Sonam Wangchuk
Thirteen years I took on this last book.
~ Gay Talese
In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Women in their thirties are much more nervous about dating. They feel time is 'running out for them. They want to get married and have a family. The women I see in their forties and fifties know what they want. They are amazing, confident women with good jobs, but they are just struggling to find someone who is their equal.
~ Matthew Hussey
It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously!
~ Andra Day
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.
~ Ian McDiarmid
I'm in my fifties now. That's still a shock when I say it out loud, because I don't feel any different to when I was in my thirties.
~ Tess Daly
There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
~ Gertrude Stein
Television is a lot more fast-paced, where with films, you really have the ability to get to know your characters. When I was doing guest star roles, I was only one, like, one episode of a thirty minute to an hour show, so you don't really have time to get to know my characters.
~ Liana Liberato
I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.
~ Mickey Rooney
I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
~ Ridley Scott
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
~ Ilan Stavans
I've always loved the future. But I must say the future changes a lot quicker than it used to. An era used to last thirty or forty years - now we're lucky if it's five.
~ Nicolas Roeg
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
~ Richard Brautigan
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
~ V. S. Naipaul
Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.
~ Katha Pollitt
If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.
~ Charles Murray