Top 100 About Time Sayings
#1. I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.
Don Cupitt
#2. Roses," Georgiana repeated, her thoughtful gaze touching his. "It's about time one of the Carroway men
decided to cultivate something other than their poor reputations.
Suzanne Enoch
#3. I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.
Martin Seligman
#4. All my life I've been well behaved," she said. "It's about time I got to push people around and not apologize.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#5. The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know,
Sarah Manguso
#6. The man puts you on a fucking pedestal. And you do the same to him. It's about time you knocked each other off, because now you're on the ground where you should be. And that's the foundation you need to build on, not some lofty idea that you can't be happy if you aren't perfect.
Jessica Hawkins
#7. Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
Ben Lovett
#8. It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.
Billy Packer
#9. So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time.
Richelle Mead
#10. It's never about time. It only takes one moment.
Jay E. Tria
#11. I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.
Matthea Harvey
#12. About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing.
I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
Xiaolu Guo
#13. I really like the topic about time is an Illusion and also this quote "#Time Physical things are merely the collapse of psychic things into physical reality." - it's powerful. As much you repeat it as much powerful it gets.
Deyth Banger
#14. One of the nice things about time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century.
Jill Thompson
#16. Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesn't go in the order we perceive it. There are ... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.
Helen Oyeyemi
#17. We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.
Prince Philip
#18. That's the thing about time travel - you're always moving forward, even when you go back.
James A. Owen
#20. You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms
those poor creatures don't know the first thing about time or agony or the price they're going to have to pay for just about everything.
Alice Hoffman
#21. The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
Dionne Warwick
#22. Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
#23. Leave them be. It's about time the two of them worked things out, don't you think?"
"Long past time, but you know TJ. I was hoping to make it through the evening without having to call in the swat team.
Mackenzie Crowne
#24. Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.
Richard Koch
#25. Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.
Joseph Mitchell
#26. We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
Monica Edwards
#27. It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.
Rudy Giuliani
#28. It's about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption - and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.
Meghan Daum
#29. I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
Henry Rollins
#30. Now was not the time to be sentimental. As a child, she'd been ridiculously sentimental about loss, about time passing.
Maryanne O'Hara
#31. The greatest thing that gives me peace about time is knowing that I get to make choices about what I do with it. I also find it amazing that when there is something I really want to do, I find the time for it.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#32. Architecture is not about space but about time.
Vito Acconci
#33. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
Douglas Coupland
#34. It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.
Najib Razak
#35. When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
Ozwald Boateng
#36. Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
Kathy Acker
#37. Actually, highly successful people don't think about time much at all. Instead, they think about values, priorities, and consistent habits.
Kevin Kruse
#38. This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.
Benji Marshall
#39. For many years I have been tormented by the certainty that the most extraordinary discoveries await us in the sphere of time . We know less about time than about anything else
Andrei Tarkovsky
#40. I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.
Charles Finch
#41. I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.
Lenny Bruce
#42. One of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.
Audrey Niffenegger
#43. Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.
Aaron Schock
#44. It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.
Kesha
#45. Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Jose Saramago
#46. But if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing.
Susan Meissner
#47. Time, time," Toot complained. "Is that all you mortals can ever think about? Everyone's complaining about time! The whole city rushes left and right screaming about being late and honking horns! You people used to have it right, you know.
Jim Butcher
#48. It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma Thompson
#49. But you'll see, you can feel time on the wind it whips up as it passes. We don't worry about time or the wind. Nothing can touch us any more. As long as people remember us, we are here. Anyway, it's the wind that tells us, lets us know about the thigs we've left behind.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#50. I think it's about time the world embraced its geekiness and stopped trying to be cool. It's just ... you have way more fun as a geek than as a cool person.
Shirley Manson
#51. CES, at its core, isn't a show about electronics. It's a show about time.
David Berkowitz
#52. About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.
Claudia Gray
#53. You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.
David Allen
#54. I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
Charles Barkley
#55. He had also said something about time healing all wounds. But now she was running out of time.
A.G. Riddle
#56. There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces.
Noelle Oxenhandler
#57. Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time
weeks, months, years, decades even.
Helen Prejean
#58. It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.
Bjork
#59. It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
Jane Fonda
#60. It's about time to see the downfall of the scorecards of who's right and who's wrong. At the end of the day, what's important is that you feel good.
Eve Evangelista
#61. I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda.
Meg Whitman
#62. I'm so sorry,' Stone said. I don't know whether he was speaking to me, or Ghosh, or the universe. It wasn't enough, but it was about time.
Abraham Verghese
#63. In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
Yuji Horii
#65. Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.
So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#66. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.
Francois Lelord
#67. Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
Zubin Mehta
#68. People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
Octavia E. Butler
#69. Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence.
Khaled Hosseini
#70. I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
Sojourner Truth
#71. Perhaps all the science-fiction stories he read about time travel when he was a teenager had it right: you can't change the past, no matter how you try.
Stephen King
#72. President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?
Michelle Malkin
#73. Isn't it about time that we stopped wasting so much time on what a person prefers?
Karl Malone
#74. It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
Elliott Erwitt
#75. Saumensch, du dreckiges - it's about time!
Markus Zusak
#76. Their long overdue kiss was interrupted far too soon for either of their likings.
"Well, it be about time!"
Nothing on God's earth can douse a man's ardor like the sound of his mother's voice.
Suzan Tisdale
#77. And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#78. When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.
Stephen R. Covey
#79. I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.
Rush Limbaugh
#80. Hallelujah! It's about time you two idiots figured out that you were made for each other.
Jay Crownover
#81. I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.
Stephan Bonnar
#82. Its not about time, its about choices. How are you spending your choices?
Beverly Adamo
#83. I started to think about time, and how it keeps moving and draining and flowing forever forward, seconds into minutes into days into years, all of it leading to the same place, a current running forever in one direction. And we're all going and swimming as fast as we can, helping it along.
Lauren Oliver
#84. If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well, it's about time".
Bill Maher
#86. Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
Lee Daniels
#87. I knew that Malcolm X had an almost fanatical obsession about time. "I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else , for this type is not time-conscious," he had once told me.
Malcolm X
#88. It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it's about time to open a snack bar.
Scott Douglas
#89. Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
Fred Upton
#90. It's about time that governments feared the people instead of the other way around.
Henry Rollins
#91. Don't you think it's about time you sobered up?"
"Wait, lemme ponder that." Lord Maccon paused, as though giving the matter deep consideration. "Nope.
Gail Carriger
#92. Life (and running) is not all about time but about our experiences along the way.
Jennifer Rhines
#94. I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.
Nico
#95. Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
Douglas Horton
#96. When they ask me the meaning of time
I am speechless
and I choose to be friends with minutes and seconds, as I know, they are more familiar about time
Ys Sroyer
#97. It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us ... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.
Marwan Al-Muasher
#98. Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
Norman Mailer
#99. ... the same kind of answers the stars are always trying to give us, she thought, when we look up and up at them. So high above, speaking in gradual whispers about time, about their own flaming hearts and the endless cold that lies between ...
Eileen Wilks
#100. The biggest need that women have is more time. We all want more time in our lives. More time in the morning to get ready. More time in the evening to spend time with our families. All of these things - more time to move up that career path. It's about time.
Renee Ellmers
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