Quotes About Time

I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

I hate wasting people's time.

Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

I may not have all the time I thought I had.

American families only spend 17 minutes a day on average having time together.

I think seven years is a great time to end a series.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.