Time Quotes

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.