Quotes About Time

I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.

Tennis is a big puzzle. It's not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have to put all the pieces together. For me, it took me time.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.

I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

The majority of the time having first touches, when the ball comes to you, you're normally free so you've got time to control, but as a centre forward, you've got to be able to ride it. You've got to tense your body, but then have your foot be soft enough to control the ball, as well.

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.

There's a sense you get from the Coens' work, like 'No Country for Old Men,' where you put these characters in situations, and you just let this painful amount of time take place. Part of the tension is just how long it takes to get out of that scene.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.