Quotes About Time

For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.

There's no way I can grow a Jesus beard in a week.

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

My heart beats in three-quarter time.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.

It's not like I'm back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You're back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.

We come to beginnings only at the end.

The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.

I'm working 30 hours or so a week, and if I'm being honest I'd rather it was 50.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

It wouldn't be believable to show an elevator stuck for five minutes in the U.S. today.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Your time here on this earth, it belongs to you.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. THOREAU, Walden

When Thoreau says, "it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished," this is waving a red flag in front of a bull for go-getting, progress-oriented people. But who is to say that his realizations of one morning spent in his doorway are less memorable or have less merit than a lifetime of busyness, lived with scant appreciation for stillness and the bloom of the present moment?

To be patient is simply to be completely open to each moment, accepting it in its fullness, knowing that, like the butterfly, things can only unfold in their own time.

Here is Eliot, again from "Burnt Norton": Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time Ã¢â'¬Â¦