Times Quotes

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

At times I think and at times I am.

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.