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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
- Safety
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant because of how quickly people are suddenly able to communicate, and letters actually arrive at the intended time, and they arrive to the correct recipient. All of this is really important to a plot.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only time in my career I've lost sleep - wake up 3:30 in the morning, and you know you're not going back to sleep - is when I've been an entrepreneur. Even in the financial crisis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020