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quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family.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.
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
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Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.
We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
We had a large spell in 1985-86, but we would have had to move to the States and be available all the time, so we chose to remain a European act.
To do a movie about someone who actually lived gives you two responsibilities. You have to try to be accurate to the facts of what he did and what he was like as a character. Then, at the same time,...
You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years....
This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.
I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way.
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel...
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.
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A few quotes look further back, considering time on a generational scale rather than a daily one. For nearby reading in Hindi, see Anmol Vachan or Suvichar on this same theme.
