Quotes About Time

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

Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time." She wanted to believe that; she wanted to believe it almost desperately. She wanted to be different from what she was—to be anything but what she was. But every day that grew less and less likely. Life, it seemed to her in the back of the cab, was nothing but a narrowing of opportunities. It was a funnel.

She looked up at him. She could remember holding him on her lap, reading a story, kneeling down beside him. Then came the years she spent on her knees because she was concerned how he might turn out. Those years were long gone.

There had been a connection long ago, but that had been severed. Something in me wanted to hold on, to roll back the clock and never let him go, but I had made my choice, as he had, and we had to live with our choices.

On time is 10 minutes late.

I'm not really deep enough to have enough to think about for fifteen minutes.

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.

Usually halftime's only like 15 minutes.

The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it's not like a conversation.

They have barricades at our gigs - to keep people in. We do most of the songs from 'Scrubs' over 55 minutes.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.

It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.

People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.