Quotes About Time

The woman who looks back at me from my bathroom mirror is sliding toward her mid-fifties. She'd better be careful- she's getting old. I myself am about thirty. I've been thirty for about twenty-three years now.

Time is a created thing. To say I DON'T HAVE TIME is like saying I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.

few days. Or would you rather come

horses. It took them three more days to come

Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

The time a man wakes up is his morning.

Chinua Achebe (Author)

Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?

time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy.

Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE I have so much to do today. I can't possibly get it all done, so I'm not going to start.

As this figure shows, a once-monolithic industry structure where professionals produced and amateurs consumed is now a two-way marketplace, where anyone can be in any camp at any time. This

Google is in a sense serving as a time machine, and we're just now being able to measure the effect this has on publishing, advertising, and attention.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.

here's the thing: However attractive the idea of a writer's retreat may sound, having all day to poke around on a novel actually hampers productivity.

Once you stumble across a fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime idea for a book, it's hard to treat that story with the irreverent disregard needed to transform it from a great idea into a workable rough draft. When you give yourself just one month to flesh out your concept, you won't have time to feel overly protective of your ideas. And you will therefore stand a much better chance of bringing them to life.

we were too young- and the ground too muddy- for our small part of the earth to move.

We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday.

We are mortal. Nothing that touches us or we touch here is forever. Even rocks are rubbed small by the river.

we have on earth exactly the amount of time that has been allotted to us, no more and no less. We really have precious little control.

You want to know the definition of a consultant? A guy who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is.

months earlier with Kristin