Time Quotes

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

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.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Time flies never to be recalled.