Time Quotes (12477)
Quotes and citations about time
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
By : Alvar Aalto
I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.
By : Willie Aames
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
By : Hank Aaron
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
By : Frank Abagnale
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
By : Edward Abbey
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
By : Lynn Abbey
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
By : Lynn Abbey
Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
By : Bud Abbott
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
By : Grace Abbott
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
By : Grace Abbott
There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say.
By : Paula Abdul
You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.
By : Paula Abdul
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
By : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
By : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
By : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.
By : John Abercrombie
Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
By : John Abercrombie
You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
By : John Abercrombie
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful
By : Lascelles Abercrombie
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently
By : Lascelles Abercrombie
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
By : Lascelles Abercrombie
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
By : Ralph Abernathy
Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.
By : John Abizaid
But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.
By : John Abizaid
Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.
By : John Abizaid
I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
By : F. Murray Abraham
I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.
By : Casey Abrams
No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
By : Floyd Abrams
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
By : Floyd Abrams