Quotes About Time

You know the Etruscan saying: 'Once grieving starts it never ends, so there's no point in grieving an hour earlier than you must.

The Minotaur comes and goes. He has for centuries. And there have been many bridges. The Minotaur pauses, as he walks, midway through the covered bridge that serves, in more ways than one, as the entrance to Old Scald Village. He rests his heavy snout against one of the wooden trusses. The Minotaur likes this portal, both ingress and egress, a breach in the terribly human construct of time.

So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

From past experience, it seems that at my rate of writing it takes about a decade to produce enough new essays for assembly in a collection. I hope nevertheless that this will not be my last collection. But given actuarial realities, perhaps this would be a good time for me to add a word of thanks to readers who over many years have put up with my polemics and explanations, and have thereby given me a precious contact with the world beyond physics.

Even before the start of history, the sky must have been commonly used as a compass, a clock, and a calendar. It could not have been difficult to notice that the Sun rises every morning in more or less the same direction, that during the day one can tell how much time there is before night from the height of the Sun in the sky, and that hot weather will follow the time of year when the day lasts longest.

I made wine out of raisins so I would not have to wait for it to age.

I put instant coffee into the microwave. I almost went back in time.

Anywhere is walking distance, if you've got the time.

I know when I'm going to die. My birth certificate has an expiration date on it.

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast anytime." So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?

How young can you die of old age?

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, 'So, what did you think?