Time Quotes

• Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events - a story - and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Lost

• I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

  

  Katherine Boo
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Husband

• The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'

  

  Sia LSD
  • Time
  • Great
  • Victory

• My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Mind
  • She
  • Simpatico

• I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them.

  

  Adriana Barraza
  • Words
  • Effort
  • English

• People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Time
  • Garden

• The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Important
  • Nature
  • City

• She said I was afraid of success, which may in fact be true, because I have a feeling that fufilling my potential would really cut into my sittin' around time.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • May
  • She
  • True

• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • American
  • America
  • Pretty

• I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.

  

  John Kasich
  • Done
  • House
  • Moon

• Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Criticism

• You would never have the time. I would love to change your mind. You were there. And it was good in the beginning.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Beginning

• If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain places have? They bring an incredible degree of attention to where you are and the passage of time. You're looking at every flower twitching, wondering if it's just the breeze or some magical pulse.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Religious

• Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

  

  Amy Carter
  • Time

• Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Lifetime
  • Wellness

• I have worked very, very hard over the course of my time in Congress to make sure that everybody does get access to quality, affordable, accessible health care.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Time
  • Health
  • Quality

• I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.

  

  John Barrasso
  • Time
  • Work
  • Today

• When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it right. And on 'SNL' it's just go, go, go. If you can't read the cue cards or miss your mark, you're just left to sort of screw up. So there's a lot more pressure doing a live TV show.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Learning

• I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Great
  • Long
  • Moon

• Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'

  

  Jessica Scorpio
  • Time
  • Exercise
  • motivation

• The radio craze will die out in time.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Die
  • Radio
  • Craze

• I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Different
  • Art
  • History

• Shyness is a very curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people are any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • Time

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