Time Quotes
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I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.
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Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
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The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
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Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.
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Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.
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I don't know about young Thor and King Thor getting their own series someday, although it would be nice if I could write three Thor series at the same time.
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From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
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It is generally admitted that most grown-up people, however regrettably, will try to have a good time.
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It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.
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When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.
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The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.
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I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
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I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.
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There are plenty of cities that have given me the time of my life for a week or two - including Sao Paulo, Paris, and New York - but London has an enduring appeal that keeps on unfolding.
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These poems were written by someone I once was and who is so distant to me now that I scarcely recognize him anymore. They speak for a time and a feeling which of course has gone from me but for which I still have a close affection and kinship.
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The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
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I'd like to be a three-time Olympian.
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Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.
Colson Whitehead -
It is kind of bizarre, but at the same time, I feel like anyone that gets into movies didn't fit into the real world, and so we made our own world.
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It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
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When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities.
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I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.
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My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.' So it's harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.
