Quotes About Time

Solitude demands a precise assessment of time, I've always understood this. It's like the money in your wallet: you have to know how much time you need to kill, how much to spend before dinner, what's left over before going to bed. But time seems different here. My walk took an hour, but to me it felt much longer.

Y, así, esos ocho meses quedan atrás, no tardan en difuminarse, en olvidarse, como esa prenda de ropa que nos ponemos para una celebración especial o que pertenece ya a otra temporada y que con el tiempo acaba resultando engorrosa, prescindible.

On Sundays he spends an hour occupied with his tins of shoe polishes and his three pairs of shoes, two black and one brown. The brown ones are the ones he'd been wearing when he'd first come to see her.

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action ,you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

It's amazing how quickly human beings adapt, isn't it? It was such a great crew, and David [Lynch] was wonderful to work with [on 'The Elephant Man']. It was a very thrilling time, actually.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.

The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Sometimes, you promise someone forever, but it doesn't work that way.