Quotes About Time

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

I always thought that being at Time and tweaking your bosses and exploiting your expense account was just fun. Just joyous.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.

One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.