Time Quotes

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Sleep
  • Sad
  • Talking

• When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Time
  • Job
  • Thought

• Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

  

  Bill Williams
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Compassion

• Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • Time
  • Present
  • Progress

• We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Success
  • Earth
  • Period

• I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Cool
  • Hair
  • Never

• I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • Time
  • Night

• If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Good
  • Business

• One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do … the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Travel

• I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in my pocket now for when it's necessary.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Time

• I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Night

• I promise you, I will not be taking very long vacations, if I take them at all. There’s no time for vacations. We’re not going to be big on vacations.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time
  • Long
  • Promise

• At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • American
  • Courage

• All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Time
  • School
  • Friends

• 'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Done
  • Character
  • Remember

• Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Me

• We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Silence

• One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Black
  • Style
  • Military

• I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Identity

• Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Music
  • Art
  • Energy

• When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Alone

• After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

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