Quotes About Time

In the next minute, I will be entirely naked. In the minute after that, fully dressed.

I named the company Kenneth Cole because I didn't have a lot of time to make up a name.

I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.

Yes, Charles Yu names his main character after himself. That main character, in fact, is both time-machine repairman and author of a book called 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.'

My dad's my nanny, so he spends a lot of time with me in L.A. when my mom's in Atlanta.

There is no other parent for Inez. When I was working, I never got to hear about her day or chat about what she was learning or do any reading with her because by the time I got home my nanny had put her to bed.

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

The most serious problem doing biography is the matter of time because you have to shape events into a narrative of two hours; you have to create a dramatic arc. That can be a challenge.

Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.

Retail businesses have narrow margins. If you cut off a flow of young consumers, it's only a matter of time before the businesses struggle and fail.

My hope is, and I know there are a couple of big manufacturers, and there always are - this is not breaking news - there's always somebody who has an interest in at least understanding the NASCAR opportunity, and so my sense of it is over time that we will have a fourth manufacturer.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

I just want to say that aside from Atlanta United, any national team gives you a little bit more free time. I don't want to get completely into the analysis. There are different responsibilities compared to clubs and national team.

I don't think anyone ever turns down their national team opportunity, but I think it has to be at the right time.

When you come in with the national team, there's an adjustment period. Sometimes you don't have time to adjust.

There's seriously talented players who have been around for a long time, both in the national team and with Bayern, so there's always a danger of not playing so often.

Since June of 1981, between school and the national team, I haven't had much time to spend with myself or my family.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.