Top 100 Quotes About Time Flies
#2. But it's like time is sort of ... balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don't you see.
Anne Tyler
#3. Time flies when you're running out of money.
James Cook
#4. Time flies so fast because it does not have any guidance. Like the moon in its zenith or the horizon.
Albert Camus
#5. If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.
Jef Mallett
#7. Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
Carol Leifer
#9. During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable.
Lindsay Lohan
#10. Time flies on fickle wings
Seneca.
#12. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." -
Michael Altshuler
#13. But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
Virgil
#15. I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.
Neneh Cherry
#17. Doesn't it scare you sometimes how time flies and nothing changes?
Ika Natassa
#18. They say time flies, but you keep breaking it's wings.
Tablo
#19. It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.
Gabrielle Zevin
#20. Time flies; but does not land. Eternity does not have an airport and does not rest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon ... smart too late.
Mike Tyson
#23. While I speak, time flies.
Ovid
#24. Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.
Claire Cook
#25. Live loath'd and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
William Shakespeare
#26. That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#27. I guess time flies when you're playing hockey every day and getting laid every night.
Sarina Bowen
#29. Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.
Deepak Chopra
#30. - and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other ... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
Colette
#32. Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years.
Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.
Pete Conrad
#34. Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#35. As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.
Ovid
#36. Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
C.S. Lewis
#37. Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.
Tadashi Shoji
#38. Time flies never to be recalled.
Virgil
#39. Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.
Terry Wogan
#44. Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.
J.C. Lillis
#45. I don't understand
how everything moves so quickly.
They say time flies when you're having fun,
but I wasn't always having fun.
Even when I was mad or sad,
time was always on the run.
Amanda Leigh
#46. Time flies when you're falling down ... (not from a book, it's a lyric)
Courtney Love
#47. Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
Robert Orben
#48. While we only think instead of acting, time flies by us.
Sunday Adelaja
#50. Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever.
Nas
#52. When you're engaged in what you love to do, it's like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed.
T. Harv Eker
#53. The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.
Craig Wilson
#54. Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith,
Tryna hide behind a lie with a straight face.
Xzibit
#57. Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. They say time flies when you're having fun, but boy does it move at a snail's pace when you're worried or depressed or anxious.
Kim Askew
#59. Dor shook his head. "The phrase. What does it mean?"
Sarah wondered if he was kidding. "Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you're saying goodbye
and it's like no time passed at all?"
His eyes drifted. He liked it. "Time flies."
"With you," she added.
Mitch Albom
#60. He defined the state as being so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost.
Steven Kotler
#61. The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.
Craig Clevenger
#62. Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
Umberto Eco
#63. Time ain't money.
Time flies, money bubble.
Toba Beta
#64. The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.
Seneca The Younger
#65. Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.
Theodore Gordon
#67. Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev
#68. Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.
Groucho Marx
#69. People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again
James St. James
#70. Time only has one mode of transportation. It flies.
Arleen A.
#71. Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#72. Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.
William Muir
#73. I lie down on my bed, my back to the window, and the tears finally arrive, running down my face, into my ears, onto my pillow. I lie there for a long time, for hours maybe, and right as I'm about to finally drift to sleep I think I hear the flutter of Christian's wings as he flies away.
Cynthia Hand
#74. I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.
Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life ...
Sanhita Baruah
#75. Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
Edward Moore
#76. During the fifth inning, something came to the edge of the woods and looked at her. Flies and noseeums made a cloud around its rudiment of a face. In the specious brilliance of its eyes was a complete history of nothing. It stood there for a long time.
Stephen King
#77. Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
Erma Bombeck
#78. Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality's vulture flies down and picks at the bones of our dreams.
John Dolan
#79. Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.
Michael R. French
#80. Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to come and time is the iron bars of a prison
Chloe Thurlow
#81. soon after we arrived in the U.S., Baba started grumbling about American flies. He'd sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, harried and rushed. "In this country, even flies are pressed for time," he'd groan.
Khaled Hosseini
#82. I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.
Joyce Rachelle
#83. Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#84. It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.
Markus Zusak
#86. I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.
Marc Reisner
#87. Leaving dishes unwashed is unacceptable, because food remains rot, smell and attract flies. It also makes dishes turn dark over time.
Anastas Mikoyan
#88. In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.
Herman Melville
#89. Time is passing : not leaden stepping
But sprinting on winged feet,
Quick silver slipping by.
Richard L. Ratliff
#90. November 30th marks Luna Hale's eighteenth birthday. Time fucking flies - I remember when she was just a baby and we'd tap each other's noses and say beep beep.
Krista Ritchie
#91. What we see of the world is the mind's
Invention and the mind
Though stained by it, becoming
Rivers, sun, mule-dung, flies-
Can instantly shift
A dirty bird in square time
Phillip Whalen
#92. To-morrow - oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise.
James Montgomery
#93. When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.
I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?
Ilona Andrews
#94. Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.
Alice Hoffman
#95. The minutes rushed past, without compassion for my enthusiasm.
Nicola Lecca
#96. The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.
Roy Niederhoffer
#97. Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.
Joanna Baillie
#98. It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#100. Love, as is told by the seers of old,
Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
