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Quotes About Time

We spend time with a painting to try to understand it, but how much time we spend with a painting is driven by how much we understand of it.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.
~ Tom Waits
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
~ Tom Waits
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
~ Tom Waits
No matter how long it takes, true love is always worth the wait.
~ Tom Waits
And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget that history puts a saint in every dream.
~ Tom Waits
Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
~ Tom Waits
The Universe is making music all the time.
~ Tom Waits
Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
~ Tom Waits
The studio is torn down, all the people who played on it are dead, the instruments have been sold off. But you are listening to a moment that happened in time sixty years ago and you are hearing it just as sharp as when it was made. That remains an amazing thing to me.
~ Tom Waits
But with twenty-four hours of airtime to fill, the fact that the storm had not yet hit was news.
~ Tom Wheeler
On average it took 22 days for news to travel between New York City and Charleston; and 26 days to reach Savannah.
~ Tom Wheeler
All things in Life are of equal importance. Only their suspense dates differentiate one from another.
~ Unknown
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most birthdays live the longest.
~ Unknown
Does anyone know when they are going to come out with the new Mayan Calender?
~ Unknown
Just think, if I was born one day earlier I would have written this yesterday.
~ Unknown
Money will trump morals the majority of time.
~ Unknown
Some people care more about that happened a 100 thousand years ago than they care where they will be in 100 years from now.
~ Unknown
Sometimes even destiny takes time.
~ Unknown
Time is the measurement of the rotation of the Earths Surface around the Circumference of it's Axis.
~ Unknown
Today was tomorrow and yesterday was today.
~ Unknown
Tomorrow is always the busiest day of the week.
~ Unknown
You are not truly rich until you have something that money can't buy.
~ Unknown
Today is today. And it is a gift
~ Tomie dePaola