Quotes About Time

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.

History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.

One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.

I did not come to Mumbai to act. I came here to look for a job as our business had shut down, and it was a difficult time for us.

There's never any time for anything that's remotely kinky, and even when I try to send some kinky stuff, it always gets shut down.

I am a quiet person's nightmare. The only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess that means I'll reach a point when I read nothing else.

I was too shy to be in films. But, my father thought it would work for me. It took a lot of time for me to think about getting into films.

My father did not have a lot of security in his life. He did odd jobs. He had a real struggle to make money. He lost a lot of time in his 20s, after the war, because he was sent to a forced-labour camp in Siberia.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

The United States is one of the few nations on the planet where paid family and medical leave or earned sick time is not the law of the land.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'