Quotes About Time

Which is the point: the future looks a lot more like the past than you might expect.

It is hard to see how repentance after death trivializes this life and our previous choices if repentance at the last moment of life does not do so. Repentance at the moment of death would not trivialize this life, so the argument goes, but repentance the moment after death would. Can a single moment of time have this much moral significance?

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There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

Today he would believe. Tomorrow would answer for itself.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

Every work of art is a culturescape of you, your memories, the moments you spent working, your hopes, energies, and neuroses, the times you live in, and your ambitions. Of the things that are engaging, mysterious, meaningful, resistant over time.

It's hard to do nothing because you tend to do something and then you have to drop everything.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

It feels like I went right from pubescent to senior citizen. But what are you going to do? I'm lucky I caught myself. I might have ended up the only man in the rest home who still thought Jack Kerouac was cool.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

I hated wasting time as much as I hated having none of it

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

No treballi tant, senyor secretari, deixi la paperassa i vingui a finestrejar. Guaiti, fixi's en aqueixa noia tan bonica que travessa la plaça. No badi, cregui'm, això dura poc. En un tres i no res, passem d'embrions incerts a calaveres atònites.

Sus corazones enamorados palpitan al ritmo de la brisa, al ritmo del minuto, que aún, no ha terminado.

Natalia, una mujer joven no mayor de 30 años, lleva algo más de 15 abriles, esperando aquella carta que le prometió su madre

Don't forget about the past, don't worry about the future, but love what's here now!