Quotes About Time

If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when their lesser films are forgotten and just focus on the greatness.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

If the president finds time to help the mentally retarded, what are you doing that's so important? [Written underneath:] Working to get them out of Washington.

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don't speak English. And who don't count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can't read maps.

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?