Quotes About Time

Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

I'm in high heels, I'm wearing a fabulous dress, people want me to just smile and talk about my movie because I only have three minutes, and that's my job.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven't done anything to regret yet and it's been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.