Quotes About Time

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

I like clothes that you can't tell what era it is, clean, and something I can look back at in ten years and not say, like, 'what the hell was I thinking?!'

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale. And the opposite is true - if everyone wants to make your movie, that's a sign that it probably sucks.

Getting to be a musician for ten years is very different from being a musician for a year. You get different stories, and have a different connection with the fans after ten years.

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Since I don't have much time to cook, I tend to cook in bulk and eat leftovers.

I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early.

I think the main mistake people tend to make is that they rush desserts. Take your time and plan ahead.

I rarely have time for lunch, so tend to have a big breakfast and big dinner.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

There is a natural tendency for investors to devote a significant majority of their time to finding new ideas. After all, uncovering great companies selling at great prices is the lifeblood of successful investing. But in the never-ending quest for the next great idea, investors often give short shrift to their existing investments.

I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time - particularly for the pieces that orchestras know best. Because there, the tendency is not to take them apart - rediscover them - and you must.

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.