Quotes About Time

In Los Angeles, I feel like I'm wasting time while I'm driving, so now I listen to NPR and the 'Serial' podcast. I'm like, 'Yay! I can learn something while driving.'

With 'World of Warcraft,' I like the potential for wasting time.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

All generations think the present moment is the greatest but also have this fascination with before their time. I do the same thing. I see old British movies. I'm like, 'Man, I would love to be in London at that time.' But then I wouldn't be able to watch 'The Walking Dead,' I wouldn't have cable, and my pizza options would be limited.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

When I watch Twenty20 cricket, there's a different satisfaction. That hundred you get in six hours is a very satisfying feeling. A real triumph of skill. I don't quite see that in the 20-over game - or the 100-ball game.

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.

Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.

I rarely get the time to watch cricket as I am busy with recordings.

As anyone who has watched Time Team will know, the context is all in archaeology.

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

I watched 'Maheshinte'... in 2016 just once.

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.