Quotes About Time

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Let not defeatists tell us that it is too late. It will never be earlier. Tomorrow will be later than today.

There are only so many hours in the day for amateur pursuits—and very few writers are as gifted as Wallace Stevens or T. S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath, able to generate something lasting from stolen moments.

The history of life unfolds over a time span so vast it boggles the imagination. I, for one, can draw no meaning from a million years, let alone a billion, and prefer a geographical metric. Let 1 millimeter, the thickness of a dime, stand for 1 year. Then 1 meter makes a millennium, 1 kilometer 1 million years, and the age of the earth (about 4.5 billion years) spans 4,500 kilometers, a little more than the distance between Miami and Seattle. As

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Count the day won when, turning on its axis, This earth imposes no additional taxes.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

Health is the thing that makes you feel like that now is the best time of the year.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self-sacrificing patriotism, and, as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult.

an artist is about condensing ideas into time.

No excuses," Miss Hardy said firmly. "It won't take you any time to drive out there. I'll whip up a strawberry shortcake while you're gone." "In that case," Frank said, laughing, "we'll leave right away.

You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.

Skipping meals is terrifically convenient: It gives one lots of time to brood and hate oneself.

When you stop time, you don't accept your sorrows. When you stop time, you want everything to be the way it was before.

There is so much resistance to the idea of animal culture that one cannot escape the impression that it is an idea whose time is come.

I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)