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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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'Love in the Time of Cholera' when I was 19, and I still think about the characters.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
- Extending
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- Nov 07, 2020
New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a call from someone at WWE and was flown out for an appearance, knowing I had to do Revlon training the next day. I was open to it as long as they got me to the airport so I could make it to my gig in San Francisco on time. When the company picked me up, I had all my Revlon stuff for the class the next day and took it with me to the arena.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't chat with Vince McMahon all the time, but he always gave me great opportunities.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
- Emerges
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- Nov 07, 2020