Time Quotes

• How do I define who Usher is? I'm still doing it - every day, every new opportunity, every stage, every interview, every other thing that I've done, every time that I've invested in anything that is all the definition of who I am.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• I was in Puerto Rico going to school, and it was very jarring for me. 'Traumatic' is the only way that I can say it. Kids were making fun of me: 'Oh, you're a Yankee.' And I acted out a lot. A lot. But looking back, and through a little bit of therapy, everything I am has to do with that time.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Time

• There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Long
  • Free

• One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Truth

• I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Life
  • Time

• I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Help
  • Think
  • Moment

• Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

  

  Drake
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Jealousy

• Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar faces.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Black
  • Community
  • Ballet

• When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.

  

  Chrisette Michele Payne
  • People
  • School
  • Nice

• Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

  

  Joe Montana
  • Job
  • Night
  • Car

• I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• If you live in the States, you see the windmill signal on your smartphone all the time. It's like living in Beijing air. You have to remember the blue sky.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Air

• There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Giving
  • Stop
  • Rest

• I went to private school for a very long time, and we always wore uniforms. Then in third grade, I switched to a public school, so I was so excited to wear what I wanted on the first day. I remember I chose this orange hoodie with a skirt, and it's so funny when I think about it now because my style really hasn't changed that much.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Long
  • School
  • Remember

• Look, Jeyaretnam can't win the infighting. I'll tell you why. WE are in charge. Every government ministry and department is under our control. And in the infighting, he will go down for the count every time... I will make him crawl on his bended knees, and beg for mercy.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Why
  • Control
  • Mercy

• Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Door
  • Bird

• Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Time

• Superstition sawSomething it had never seen before:Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,Beauty so sudden for that time of year.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Eyes

• You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Time
  • Success

• Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

  

  Jay Griffiths
  • Society
  • Science
  • Space

• My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

  

  Don Baylor
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Rock

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