Quotes About Time

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.

The best times are when the time on stage becomes much slower and the movement much bigger - in that case, everything seems to flow. This state does not happen very often, but when it does, it is a magic kind of pleasure.

It's about listening to the land and being patient and being ready to absorb our dreaming or our path or our destiny slowly, with patience, being ready to absorb that when it's time and not chasing it.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.

People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Sometimes as an actor, it's really hard to give yourself permission to take your time and move slowly and not feel like you're holding people up or you should be going faster.

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.

The kinds of films I like are the ones that take their time. If you reach an emotional pinnacle too early on in a film, that's kind of it. I think, as in real life, when you're getting to know someone, it starts off slowly.

I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.

In television, things move quite slowly. It can take years to get a show off the ground.

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as lyrics. I believe such attempts create mundane songs, and they hardly stand the test of time.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Finding time to fit in exercise can be tough - it's easy to fall into a slump.

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day.

Simplifying the tax code and reducing administrative burdens will save small businesses money and time and let owners and employees focus less on paperwork and more on how to operate in this tough economy.

I think as much as people talk about Scotland as being a place where it's raining all the time it's a fantastic country. Considering it's such a small country you have to realise how successful it's been in the world of motor sport.