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Quotes About Time

I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
~ Florence Green
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
~ Nat King Cole
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
To make big runs you've got to bat plenty of time.
~ Michael Clarke
Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June.
~ Craig Benson
But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy.
~ Paul Reiser
I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
~ Kate Micucci
Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!
~ Rebecca Stead
A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.
~ Lizzie Armitstead
You set out to be a footballer, when you're young, and you think I'd love to do that. There's plenty of things along the way that could change that, and it's the same thing now with being a manager, it's time will tell how it goes.
~ Michael Carrick
I understand there is a lot of pressure on managers to get instant results, but English players know the league, and for them to be given the opportunity and the time as well, there is plenty of talent out there.
~ Ryan Mason
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
~ John Irving
I went on the 'Letterman' show the first time to plug something, and then I came back as the Fool, the court jester.
~ Teri Garr
I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.
~ Chris LeDoux
A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.
~ Todd McFarlane
The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.
~ Richard Mille
I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds.
~ Robert Scoble
I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.
~ Julie Plec
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
~ Billy Collins
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
~ Philip Levine
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.
~ Shel Silverstein
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
~ Jack Prelutsky
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.
~ Paul Engle