Quotes About Time

You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have their questions answered.

When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women.

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

I'm never going to be like, "Oh, this attention from women sucks." It's flattering 99 percent of the time.