Quotes About Time

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

Elections, in India, are 'over to the people' time. And it is probably the one time in their lives when politicians, and political parties, of all hues walk the razor edge of panic.

There are enough people who lost faith in me that it's time to step aside and let there be a new voice for the 6th district in Washington, so I am not going to run for re-election.

It's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

I have missed meetings because a Speed Post from a government office reached after the meeting. But these are rare blips in a large network.

I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it's great. But I'm amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don't.

I'm 28, your career is a long time. We're not tennis players or football players. I'm just about reaching what should be my peak year.

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'

It's so fun to hear the reaction from Martin Scorsese as he sees you nude for the first time.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.