Quotes About Time

If you want a piece of my time, the work I've put in has earned me the right to get paid for the work I'm being asked to do.

What do you work for? To be able to buy things for your family, keep them happy. What's the point of working and earning if you can't spend time with them?

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'

I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that the more time I have, the less efficient I am.

I have a very efficient team that takes care of my time. But yes it is very tough to do so many things. I am not there yet. I am still learning. It is a pleasure to do so many things. The challenge is to be good at everything.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

I always find it a bit embarrassing when people sing 'Auld Lang Syne.' Nobody knows when it finishes, so it goes on and on.

Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.

We are not supposed to die until we are empty.

I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

Age is not an enemy to me.

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.

I don't care if I have a short engagement or a long engagement.

'This Is England 2015.' That would be ace. We could have prosthetics to make us look really old.

I am enjoying my time as Barnet coach, but I think I could do it in Serie A.

They say, all you need is love. But what is better? Finding love, even if you don't have enough money? Or is money important, even if you don't have time to find love?

With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.