- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change isn't easy, it takes time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.
- Friday Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020