- Myself
- |
- 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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
- Home
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
- Book
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
- Phone
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
- Being
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
- Money
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
- Most
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
- Legends
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.
- Our
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over.
- Community College
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was elected for the first time in '06 I'd never been elected to any body. City councils, school board, community college boards, trustee, water district trustee, class president, ASB president, senior class president - nothing. I was never elected to anything in my life.
- Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020