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Quotes About Time

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.
~ Shawn Amos
Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.
~ Gene Cernan
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
~ Jonathan Zittrain
The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.
~ Mary Steenburgen
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
~ John McGahern
When it's my time to go, I'll go, but the only time that's going to be for 'Teen Mom' is when the network takes it off the air.
~ Farrah Abraham
I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years.
~ Dasha Zhukova
It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.
~ John Niven
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.
~ Jennifer Egan
Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me on this - there was a time in my teenage years where I just ate all the time and never got full.
~ Ryan North
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
~ Rob Lowe
'Lunch Hour' is suitable for a teenager.
~ Jean Kerr
I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
~ Charles Durning
'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
~ Edgar Wright
My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.
~ Aisha Tyler
I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.
~ Kathy Valentine
I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
~ Natasha Lyonne
Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.
~ Meg Rosoff
It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'
~ George Foreman
I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
~ Ann Romney
Seven years as a band may seem like a long time, but we were teenagers when we started.
~ Luke Hemmings
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
~ Buchi Emecheta
I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older.
~ St. Lucia
I was having my teens in my 30s.
~ Julie Walters