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Quotes About Time

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.
~ Ali Liebegott
I love being on movie sets. It's a very particular setting. And not all of the time, most of the time, there's always people you don't like, and you have to see them every day.
~ Alia Shawkat
Men are more visual creatures and rate women based on looks. We like to laugh and be shown a good time. I've never rated anyone on looks.
~ Alice Eve
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
~ Alice Hoffman
My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.
~ Alice Hoffman
One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
~ Alice Hoffman
We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!
~ Alice McDermott
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.
~ Alice Meynell
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
~ Alice Sebold
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
~ Alice Stewart
When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.
~ Alison Hawthorne Deming
I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."
~ Allan Loeb
I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
~ Allen Ginsberg
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
~ Allen Klein
There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.
~ Allison Winn Scotch
Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
~ Ally Carter
So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.
~ Alonzo Mourning
Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.
~ Alyssa Milano
Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.
~ Amanda Hocking
I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.
~ Amanda Palmer