Time Quotes
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I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.
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Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.
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I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.
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One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.
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I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
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Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking.
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From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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When something is so damaged or something is just not right, you can't fix it in a moment. The only thing is time.
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Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
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Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
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If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
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Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
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There is something in Shanghai that is very exciting and alive - the idea of a city with two different souls, one from today and another from a long time ago, is amazing.
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Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.
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River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
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We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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What is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then - we went on dancing.
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I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
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Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.
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I hope people will see how harmful words are and how irresponsible we can be when saying the wrong things at the wrong time to certain people.
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When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
