Quotes About Time

When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.

I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens and twenties. I realised putting things off in life can be dangerous because suddenly you can find you've run out of time.

Throughout your teens and twenties, it's pretty easy to live in a suspended reality - one where you never get old or need to spend much time thinking about 401Ks, mammograms, or renewing your license. You don't need me to tell you: that ends.

I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.

I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.