Quotes About Time

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.

That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

The only way to being a better teacher is time and dedication.

I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.

I was not making enough time to take care of me.

We didn't have the time to watch playback all the time so I depended on my team [All We Had].

I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time.