Quotes About Time

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

The only thing some people do is get older.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

To be immortal and then die

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.