Time Quotes

• All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Good
  • Art
  • Quality

• It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Mind
  • She
  • Light

• Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

  

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger
  • Time

• I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Long
  • School
  • Sea

• The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn't any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there, I was treated extremely well, I have strong positive feelings about all of my editors and the DC universe of characters, and I look forward to hopefully working with them at some point down the road.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Universe

• If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

  

  Alexis Korner
  • Time

• One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

  

  Emanuel Cleaver
  • Time

• There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Light

• 'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Time
  • Future
  • Dark

• Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.

  

  Brooks Hays
  • Lost
  • Mouths
  • Speakers

• My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

  

  J. C. R. Licklider
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Decision

• Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced straight-up racism out there, too.

  

  John David Washington
  • Up
  • School
  • Racism

• It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

  

  George Ade
  • Morning
  • Cold
  • Laughter

• A lot of the time you get to a point where you’re just doing your own head in.

  

  Paul Tucker Lighthouse Family
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Point

• Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Life
  • Time
  • Ends

• It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Time
  • Service

• I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

  

  Liberty Ross
  • Time
  • Husband

• The reason that fish form schools, birds form flocks, and bees form swarms is that they are smarter together than they would be apart. They don't take a vote; they don't take a poll: they form a system. They are all interactive and make a decision together in real time.

  

  Louis B. Rosenberg
  • Real
  • Together
  • Decision

• There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

  

  James Salter
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Dream

• I've been a TV junkie for a long time, since I was a kid.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Time
  • Long

• I think sometimes actors are drawn to good television because you have more time to sell it, you have more time to shape a character, and to tell a story, and that's really appealing.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

  

  Leonor Varela
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Good Times

• Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Important
  • Literature
  • Legacy

1

...

1135

1136

1137

1138

1139

...

1383

previous

next