Quotes About Time

My legislators devote most of their time to attend to people's problems. I want the people to devote more time and contribute to the development of the state.

My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right?

Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time by catching up on reading or watching all those Criterion Collection movies I'd always meant to watch.

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.

Time makes a bigger difference: just making a game, shipping it, looking at what you did, how you did it, what you did well, what you didn't do well, and doing better.

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner.

I love auditioning on tape because you have the time and the freedom to work on it, a little bit. A lot of film is slightly dependent on what your composition is and what your lighting is.

The preparations for my very first exhibition in 1984 consisted of banging a line of nails in roughly the right place and hanging plates on them. I don't think a tape measure or a spirit level was involved and the whole process took less time than the session in the pub afterwards.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.