Time Quotes

• When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

  

  Imelda May
  • Me
  • Company
  • Record

• At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Time
  • America

• I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • Years
  • Be Careful

• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hand

• I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lyrics

• Today, fashion shows are now blogged and broadcast all over the world via social media. By the time the merchandise ships many months later, the newness and excitement has worn off, and in many cases, the customer has moved on.

  

  Karen Katz
  • World
  • Today
  • Fashion

• All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.

  

  Wale
  • World
  • Why
  • Home

• Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Time
  • Different
  • Memorial

• Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

  

  David Carradine
  • Time
  • Training

• If you're reissuing something, it's important to have demos and everything else from that time that wasn't used.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Time
  • Important

• As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same time: your artist career happens when your songwriter career is, too.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Together

• If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' That thought embarrasses me so much that I look like s**t in half my photos, and I don't give a f***. What matters to me is that the people in the room leave and say, 'She was cool. She had a good time. She was honest.'

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Singing

• I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Singing
  • Person
  • Comfortable

• The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Done
  • Small

• I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Time
  • Soul

• 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 try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Chance

• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Time
  • Real
  • Documentary

• We have spent so much time worrying about a 'cyber Pearl Harbor,'' the attack that takes out the power grid, that we have focused far too little on the subtle manipulation of data that can mean that no election, medical record, or self-driving car can be truly trusted.

  

  David E. Sanger
  • Power
  • Car
  • Driving

• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Fun
  • Dream
  • Violence

• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Different
  • Long
  • Question

• Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions.

  

  Chuck Hogan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Revolution

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