Top 100 Quotes About Time Out
#1. Some people say that, as summer approaches, we start to have weird ideas; we feel smaller because we spend more time out in the open air, and that makes us aware of how large the world is. The horizon seems farther away, beyond the clouds and the walls of our house.
Paulo Coelho
#2. The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.
Colin Firth
#3. People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.
John Masefield
#4. After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.
Julia Sawalha
#5. Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done.
Neal Stephenson
#7. Fuck You!' [Oskar said] 'Exuse me!' [His mom said] 'Sorry. I mean, screw you.' 'You need a time-out!' 'I need a mausoleum!
Jonathan Safran Foer
#8. L am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#9. I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.
Tila Tequila
#10. We must take time out to sharpen the ax or we'll exhaust ourselves trying to fell trees with a blunt instrument.
Ira Chaleff
#11. You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.
Carisa Bianchi
#12. Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself.
Vimala McClure
#13. The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.
Ford Madox Ford
#14. How can teachers teach when parents demand exceptions and cry foul every time their kid gets crossways? Sometimes we step in and advocate, but sometimes our kids are lame and need to own up. Let them feel the sting of detention, a zero, a lost privilege, a time-out. Let failure instruct them.
Jen Hatmaker
#15. I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
Richard Powers
#16. There's no such thing as 'not enough time' out here in the woods. I don't even have a watch. Time is my own, categorised as nothing more than 'morning, afternoon, evening and night'.
Fennel Hudson
#17. Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
Miranda Lambert
#18. I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear.
Johnny Depp
#19. I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.
Stefan Edberg
#20. The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. At times I suffered from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me. I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night.
H.G.Wells
#22. We just have to get it going and play hard every time out.
Jimmy Haynes
#23. Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?
Mark Cahill
#24. she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach.
Paradox Brown
#25. I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
Quentin Tarantino
#26. I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.
Stephen Strasburg
#27. I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.
Wynonna Judd
#28. The world will give you relief once ina while, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, were somebody dabs mrecy on your beat-up life.
Lily Owens
#29. Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Mason Cooley
#30. I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.
Lucy Powell
#31. We will find out together," she said, feeling wrong and pleased and sad all at the same time. Out of so many contradictory emotions, all she could do was choose the best one.
Andrea K. Host
#32. Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.
Douglas Wilson
#33. I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#34. I regret I didn't ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn't really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.
Jimmy Cliff
#35. We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#36. Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was spending a lot of time in California working there and he didn't really want to spend all his time out there and have his children and his wife on the East Coast.
Erika Slezak
#37. Often in life we get so caught up in what we don't have that we forget to be grateful for what we do have. We get so busy asking and seeking and begging and pursuing that we never take time out simply to be. To sit still
Mandy Hale
#38. There is a rule in Hell: Don't trust anyone who takes time out of their day to help you.
Heather Heffner
#39. Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
W.B.Yeats
#40. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
Paul Wellstone
#41. I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.
Madeleine L'Engle
#42. She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
Fay Weldon
#43. To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.
Sandra Bullock
#44. I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
Maurice Sendak
#45. I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.
Troian Bellisario
#46. I spend a lot of time out there. I've got a lot of family that lives in Inglewood and surrounding areas. So I'm right in the hood, every time I go there I go see my peoples. I rep real hard for the people that I see that are the counterparts of what I'm trying to do out here, out there.
Immortal Technique
#47. Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
Kurt Vonnegut
#48. Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.
Joseph Bruchac
#49. You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
Nas
#50. I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.
Jason Mraz
#51. She could only do what farmers had done for time out of mind; tend her crops, care for her livestock and help her neighbors when and as she could.
Michael Tinker Pearce
#52. A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.
Clement Greenberg
#53. I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.
Sara Dormon
#54. Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?
Vincent Price
#55. But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.
Guy Clark
#56. I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.
Adam Rickitt
#57. Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#58. I don't think people realize how fucking weird Christianity is if you're not raised around it. But, hey, it got me off time-out. And, who knows, maybe a billion white people can't be wrong and it's all really true.
Eddie Huang
#59. I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.
Bill Murray
#60. Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.
Miranda Otto
#61. When I explain to parents that the research shows clearly that a one-minute time-out is sufficient for changing behavior and that we gain nothing but problems with much longer durations,
Alan E. Kazdin
#62. When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
#63. TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
Douglas Coupland
#64. I was always impressed by how much my dad went out in the yard and played with me and my siblings when we were kids. I'm sure he was tired coming back from work, since he traveled a lot. But he always took time out of his day to go out in the yard.
Andrew Luck
#65. in time-out. That's how you're acting - like five-year-olds. It's time you realized that you are sixteen and way too old for this nonsense. And you
Holly Jacobs
#66. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#67. I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.
Geraldine Brooks
#68. I miss Texas so bad. That's the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It's tough.
Jackson Rathbone
#69. As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
Kathryn Stockett
#70. I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.
Audre Lorde
#71. You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.
Rob Gronkowski
#72. From one point my father is dead I need time to get rid of this topic, from other side I will have a big holiday from 3.28.2016 up to the end of the April Vacation. That's awesome, isn't it??
I will be a lot of time out of school!
Deyth Banger
#73. Once upon a time, out of nowhere a car appeared and headed straight for Mal Bennett. 'Long time, no see,' the engine roared, and the clanging muffler agreed. The car embraced Mal, really soul-kissed him, then said 'Farewell,' tossing him back onto his beloved, sacred lawn.
Henry H. Roth
#74. The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.
Dwight Yoakam
#75. Take the time out to have a look at yourself, it might help you to appreciate yourself better.
Shampa Sharma
#76. Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler 's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.
Silvio Berlusconi
#77. In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
Alan Smith
#78. We want time in with our kids not time out.
Andy Stanley
#79. Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
Will Self
#80. Down the hall I could hear the thud of basketballs, the blare of the time-out horn, and the shouts of the crowd as the sports-beasts fought: Lisbon Greyhounds versus Jay Tigers.
Who can know when life hangs in the balance, or why?
Stephen King
#81. My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.
James Vincent McMorrow
#82. I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
Geddy Lee
#83. Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.
Diana Ross
#84. There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.
Connie Francis
#85. Take time out of your life to practice your passion. Do whatever you need to do that will propel you toward your goals.
Demi Lovato
#86. 17 seconds from Game 7, or from Championship number 6,Jordan, open, Chicago with the lead. Time out Utah, 5.2 seconds left, Michael Jordan running on fumes with 45 points.
Bob Costas
#87. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time.
There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day.
But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting.
Mitch Albom
#88. A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.
Tracy Chapman
#89. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world around me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.
H.G.Wells
#90. You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.
Kenny G
#91. I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.
Burton Silverman
#92. I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.
Danielle Harris
#93. If you know that youth is dying on the run and my daughter trades dope stories with your son we'd better see what all our fearing and our jeering and our crying and our lying brought about. Take Time Out.
Maya Angelou
#94. I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
Jeff Daniels
#95. Art and power will go on as they have done,
will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.
Carisa Bianchi
#97. We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.
Lenny Kravitz
#98. I feel like it's about taking time out of your week to have your own mini spa day. I like to do it on Sundays because usually I don't have anything on that day.
Shay Mitchell
#99. I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.
Miriam Toews
#100. Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.
Sarah Bolger
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