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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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 Nov 07, 2020

Nov 07, 2020

It was the 31st of August in 1962 that eighteen of us traveled twenty-six miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of us in to take the literacy test at the time.

Looking
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Nov 07, 2020

For me, it's about consistently churning out performances and looking to improve at the same time.

Nov 07, 2020

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

Nov 07, 2020

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.

Nov 07, 2020

We've always said Psychic TV's music is the sum total of who's in it at the time.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

If God has given me this many large blessings in such little time, why not help the people that need it?

Nov 07, 2020

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

Nov 07, 2020

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

Hard Time
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Nov 07, 2020

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

People ask me why I don't paint oils. It takes too long. Cleaning brushes in linseed oil, and it takes six months to really dry, and all this. I don't have that kind of time. I work with acrylic. It's water based. You can clean it under water. If you spill it on yourself, you just throw it in the washing machine.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

Nov 07, 2020

I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.

Galleries
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Nov 07, 2020

During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.

Nov 07, 2020

I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

Nov 07, 2020

In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal.

Nov 07, 2020

For most people watching 'Aiyyaa,' what I am down South or what I have achieved does not matter. They are going to look at me as an actor who they will see for the first time.

Work
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Nov 07, 2020

I don’t really like to work with a large team and assistants, because then I lose so much time explaining things, which I don’t like.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

For me, it's about the impact that the role has in the film overall. Less or more screen time, whether I get to romance the hero, is not the yardstick I go by. If my part is strong enough, then why not?

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble, but over a period of time, I think people now realise that most of the things I say are in jest.

First
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Nov 07, 2020

Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.

A few quotes look further back, considering time on a generational scale rather than a daily one. For nearby reading in Hindi, see Anmol Vachan or Suvichar on this same theme.

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