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Quotes About Time

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
~ Claude Debussy
The waves of time wash us all clean.
~ Colin Baker
Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.
~ Connie Willis
Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.
~ Craig Berube
Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.
~ Cynthia Nixon
The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.
~ Dan Castellaneta
I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.
~ Dana Gould
Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.
~ Daphne Guinness
In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.
~ Daphne Koller
It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.
~ Dave Barry
As time passes, my story fades away.
~ Dave Dravecky
It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.
~ Dave Grohl
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.
~ David Blunkett
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
~ David Brainerd
Hitler's Europe Yes, welcome to Hitler's Europe... Come on, human race - for our children's sake if not our own. This is wakey, wakey time.
~ David Icke
Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.
~ David Levithan
Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness
~ Deepak Chopra
I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed
~ Demetri Martin
One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'
~ Demetri Martin
Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.
~ Deniece Schofield
The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.
~ Denis Boyles
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
~ Denis Waitley