Top 100 In My Time Quotes
#1. Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I've done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it's realizing I am part of the world around me.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#2. I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
Helen Fielding
#3. One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
Frank Lautenberg
#4. I have heard now and again of such a thing, but never in our Pack or in my time," said Father Wolf. "He is altogether without hair, and I could kill him with a touch of my foot. But see, he looks up and is not afraid.
Rudyard Kipling
#5. In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#6. Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.
John Rhys-Davies
#7. I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.
Billy Campbell
#8. I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat.
-pg.170-
Cassandra Clare
#9. The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.
Colonel Sanders
#10. The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me - not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen - to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.
Suze Orman
#11. I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.
Wilkie Collins
#12. You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.
Sean Hannity
#13. In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.
Eddy Merckx
#15. It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
#16. I had to make the most of it; I had to make the most of me. There could be no slack, anywhere, not in my time, not in my head, not across my skin. If there were any, the guilt wouldn't bear thinking about.
Chrissie Wellington
#17. In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.
Bill Shankly
#18. INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used
Michael Hutchence
#19. I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
Scott Patterson
#20. I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.
Mark Strong
#21. What the hell? In my time away from the scene, apparently I'd gotten fucking trendy.
Annabeth Albert
#22. I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit.
Jasper Carrott
#23. Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they're doing interviews, which I find disrespectful. Pink boots, green boots, you name it, even tights. They'll be wearing skirts next.
Paul Ince
#24. In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#25. D, I have known a lot of men in my time,
queer and straight, and I think I can state with some
confidence that you are as gay as a spring parade." ~ Jack
Jane Seville
#26. I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry
Denise Verrico
#27. I've known a lot of alleged failures in my time and many of them, in losing what the world has always considered success, have achieved in facing up to failure, more than they ever achieved when they were considered successful.
Faith Baldwin
#28. There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.
Robert Scoble
#30. I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort.
Auberon Waugh
#31. Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.
Jasper Carrott
#32. I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done.
Robert Earl Keen
#34. I will say, nothing in my time in the Senate has more surprised me than senators and House members want to weigh in on everything under the sun, but they do not want to weigh in on a clearly defined constitutional duty to declare war. It just stuns me.
Tim Kaine
#35. Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt - daylight second, Brian Lara third.
Shane Warne
#36. I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.
Billy Corgan
#37. I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.
Selwyn Hughes
#38. I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
Al Sharpton
#40. If he lived in my time, Marcello would've been in the running for Sexiest Man Alive in People. Rich, powerful, and hotter than wasabi, he was a force.
(Kindle Locations 766-767).
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#41. When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.
Mark Twain
#42. I've tried a number of religions and gurus in my time, including Buddhism, but ultimately they didn't do as much for my peace of mind as snooker.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
#43. I'm not looking for another
As I wander in my time
Leonard Cohen
#44. It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time-now, too, I suppose-actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.
Gore Vidal
#45. On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself.
Eric Holder
#46. I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game
Lou Gerstner
#47. I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Billy Wilder
#48. Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
Anthony Browne
#49. For those cities that were great in earlier times must have now become small, and those that were great in my time were small in the time before. ... Man's good fortune never abides in the same place.
Michael Ondaatje
#50. My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.
Robert Winston
#51. I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Thomas Paine
#52. Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.
George Tahdooahnippah
#53. I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.
Jasper Carrott
#54. I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
Natalie Imbruglia
#55. Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#56. I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.
Oliver Goldsmith
#57. I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.
Tom Brokaw
#58. I've heard plenty of wacky things in my time and you just have to learn to roll with them without directly challenging the person spewing the weirdness. Challenging weirdness is a pointless and sometimes dangerous exercise.
Susan Ee
#59. I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics.
Nigel Farage
#60. "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
Charles Dickens
#61. As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
Marco Rubio
#62. I can honestly say that in my time in America, I have not encountered any racism. When Jim Thorpe and I make fun of each other on the range, or even when a white player makes a joke about my color, I take it as what it is-a joke-and give it back accordingly.
Vijay Singh
#63. For the first time X the truth is, I also couldn't bear to share you. I couldn't watch that happening,watch you with another man.I have gone too deep.Too deep with you. He kisses me again I love you, I love you more than I have ever loved any woman in my time on this earth.
A.J. Molloy
#64. That boy," he said. "I've done him ever favor I could. Some folks you can't do nothing with. Just sorry. God knows I've done plenty of drinking and stuff in my time, but I be damn if I ever tried to cheat anybody out of any money.
Larry Brown
#65. I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.
James Beard
#66. I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
William E. Gladstone
#67. I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
M. Stanton Evans
#68. I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.
Didier Drogba
#69. I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good - good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.
Aldous Huxley
#70. I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
Mark Twain
#71. I've been part of five different bands in my time.
Theo James
#72. Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time ... If he keeps developing and matures ? goodness knows what he will become. At the moment he's a breathe of fresh air.
(on Wayne Rooney)
Alex Ferguson
#73. A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
Douglas Sirk
#74. No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret Thatcher
#75. In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
Pete McCloskey
#76. I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
Bill Gold
#77. I've worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it's my duty - my responsibility - to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I've gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.
Erin O'Connor
#78. I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.
David Bowie
#79. I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.
Harrison Ford
#80. How many pages have I produced? I don't care. Are they any good? I don't even think about it. All that matters is I've put in my time and hit it with all I've got. All that counts is that, for this day, for this session, I have overcome Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
#81. I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.
Jack Kirby
#82. Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didn't play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally.
Muttiah Muralitharan
#83. Who says we didn't have controversial subjects on TV back in my time? Remember Bonanza? It was about three guys in high heels living together
Milton Berle
#84. If there are three things I've learned in my time among the fey, they are this: don't eat anything you're offered in Faeryland, don't go swimming in quiet little ponds and never, ever, make a bargain with anyone.
Julie Kagawa
#85. But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.
Todd McFarlane
#86. I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Henny Youngman
#87. -I know there were wars in my time, but none so wasteful as this.
-War is always wasteful.
Sasha Summers
#88. I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.
Jill Scott
#89. You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.
Elijah
#90. Look at your reflection," he said, gently cupping my chin in his palm. "I have scanned thousands of faces in my time, Olivia. You were meant to be a leader. It's etched in every line of your face ...
Evette Davis
#91. I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.
William Shakespeare
#92. You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
Dan Aykroyd
#93. The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.
Joseph J. Lhota
#94. Cricketers like Sachin come once in a lifetime and I am privileged he played in my time
Wasim Akram
#95. You're right, Halt,' she said, and he nodded acklowledgement of her backing down.
'Nice to hear someone else saying that for a change,' Will said cheerfully. 'Seems like I've said those words an awful lot in my time.'
Halt turned a bleak gaze on him. 'And you've always been right.
John Flanagan
#96. I've confromted enough assholes in my time. They never realize they're assholes. Not once. Whatever you say.
Sophie Kinsella
#97. In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
Oliver Goldsmith
#98. Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music. Others applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until the music was nothing but pepper.
Sergei Prokofiev
#99. I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've written some pretty good ones in my time.
Rae Morris
#100. In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.
George Carey
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