Quotes About Time

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.

It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

If you ask me what is going to happen in a month or a year, I can't tell you. We're focused on the present.

You gotta know when it's your time. You might wake up one day like, 'Damn, I just feel good,' but you've been feeling like that for a whole month. That's your season.

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

Everybody overestimates what you can do in a day and underestimates what you can do in months of work.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime!

My first album was completed in three months.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.