Quotes About Time

If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.

Life is nutty, so it's good to sing and have a good time.

Here's why people don't live on oats and water: if you're cash poor, you're likely also time poor, and speed is of the essence when your job starts at the same time as your children's day at school.

The challenge that we faced with the arrival of the Obama administration is, they didn't really have time to build trust before they had to make big, difficult decisions.

Opportunity just exists in the air for a few minutes. If you don't obey your gut feeling right away, you've lost your chance.

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

Luckily with '24,' for the most part, each moment is so intense, and your objective is all about that moment right then.

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.

We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.

There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

I was obsessed with Jeff Buckley for a while - I was convinced that Jeff Buckley and I were communicating with each other through time.

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself.

Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.