- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Charlton
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the hardest to replace has been Johnny Collins. He was great to play with. You could always rely on him to be available for a short pass, allowing you time to clear a ball. He would never give the ball away.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way to expect one ambassador to cover all of the U.S. government's priority issues, and certainly there are a plethora of U.N. meetings that drag on with an unlimited number of speakers and no time limits.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.'
- Couple Of Years Ago
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.
- Nov 07, 2020
We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020