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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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 May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
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We have fluctuations all the time, business cycles, and they come about in various ways, but normally what sets them off is some reduction in the willingness of our population, our businesses, and foreigners to buy.
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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
- Friendship
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
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I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
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To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe in working hard and having fun at the same time. It's a way of life for me, and I feel tremendous.
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Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
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For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.
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