Time Quotes

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

When you work hard, you are not going to be happy the whole time, you are going to have frustration, bad times in life.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

It's because of football that I bought my first car, I bought my first house and I probably had sex for the first time... actually, that was definitely because of football.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

All great achievements require time.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.