Quotes About Time

I'm forty-two, " he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day, ...

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

When people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can't be my fault, can it?

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

We got the spell exactly right. Except for the ingredients. And most of the poetry. And it probably wasn't the right time. And Gytha took most of it home for the cat, which couldn't of been proper.

You there is such a thing as a door, " I whispered. "You should try it some time.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

All right, I'll wait another two thousand years to make jokes about my evilness.

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!

I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

A palindrome, " I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that's when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah.-Owen Gentry

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.