Quotes About Time

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?'... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.

Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end.

I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

I've gotten auditions with as little as two hours' notice. Those don't go so well!

You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.

I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

I spend about a year between novels.