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Quotes About Time

I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.
~ Andrea Bocelli
The pitcher has the ball, and nothing happens until he lets go of it. So as the batter, I felt I had to fight for any bit of control I could get. I expected the umpire, the catcher, and the pitcher to wait on me. I wanted to get ready on my time.
~ Reggie Jackson
Buying a house is not an overnight decision, and people can wait for 3 to 6 months.
~ Ajay Piramal
Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.
~ Walter Hill
Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
~ Al Spalding
To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Anything edgy won't see instant success. That's why one will have to learn to wait. You're going to see a lot of failures.
~ Naveen Tewari
The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.
~ Jason Segel
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
~ Ernst Fischer
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
~ Mal Peet
I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
~ Patsy Cline
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
~ David Bailey
You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
~ Carlo Rubbia
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
~ Caprice Bourret
I had a contract with England, it was going to finish, and in football you can't really wait until your contract runs out.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.
~ Heather Donahue
I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.
~ Gary Cahill
On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.
~ Martin Milner
I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.
~ Max Cannon
It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
~ Anthony Holden
I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait.
~ Margaret Haddix
The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
~ Joe Henderson
To wait idly is the worst of conditions.
~ Robert Falcon Scott