- Green
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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
As lots of us ex-pros know, you are a long time retired and there comes a stage when you would give anything to be back out there playing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it's just what's inside of that frame. It's going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that's my focus.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020