- Me
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.
- Detours
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020