Quotes About Time

We have to understand that India is a complex country. Everything takes time for the real impact to get translated to the economy.

I've done a lot of ad films where an idea can be translated in 30 or 40 seconds. But in a movie, an idea needs to be stretched for two hours, and requires you to draw a bit from your experiences in life.

What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

If you have children and want to give your future self a present, record their laughter as toddlers. When they're older and away from you, you might find that clip in the middle of the day, and it will transport you as surely as if you had a time machine.

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.

Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.

The Transportation Empowerment Act paves the way for better roads, easier commutes, and more family time.

With the dramatic increase in ease of transportation and the incredible decrease in the amount of time required to travel between far-flung areas of the United States, representatives began spending more and more time in Washington and less and less time in their home districts.

For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.

I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I'd listen to post-hardcore, rap, grunge, metal... all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together.

We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.

The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

At six-fifteen the sun snuck up and mugged the moon.

The secret of success in life is time rightly used.

God doesn't come with handles, little one. He doesn't want to be controlled and thrown down the alley every time for a perfect strike. Life's not like that and neither is God. You will never totally understand God, and He will never spoon feed you with all the answers about life. Some things you just have to figure out for yourself, others, He will show you in due time. In His way and in His time.

Reality can wait.

Come. Take a step. Time waits for no one. The great wheel is turning, and a magickal journey awaits you.