Top 100 The Only Time Quotes
#1. The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'
Ashley Jensen
#2. The only time he cries is if he's hungry. We all have nipples. I don't care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I can't get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.
Selma Blair
#3. It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.
Jason Aldean
#4. Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
Richard Carlson
#5. I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.
Julia Roberts
#6. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.
C.S. Lewis
#7. The only time I go on the set is when I have a cameo to do in the picture. I go to the set and I do my little cameo and I meet all the people. It's a great way to spend the day. And then I go back to my own world.
Stan Lee
#8. The only time I felt a bit better was when some guy would chatme up over a drink or, we were having sex - because then I felt I was worth for something. Only then could I feel happy because somebody wanted something I had. To fill the emptiness inside my soul I filled the hole between my legs.
Rika Yokomori
#9. I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.
Rupert Penry-Jones
#10. The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
Angela Carter
#11. The only time I sat up from lying down was to get out of bed.
Or get some chocolate.
Or a book.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#12. Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.
Nile Rodgers
#13. Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
Victor Hugo
#14. People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.
John C. Maxwell
#15. Remember, now is the only time you have for anything. You have to accept yourself as you are before you can really change. Your choosing to do so becomes an act of self-compassion and intelligence. When
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#16. I'm not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I'm fasting. It's pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don't cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don't eat deep-fried food!
Bill Johnson
#17. the only time you get lucky is when you're planning your suicide, it's definitely time to go.
Jasmine Warga
#18. The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
Billy Connolly
#19. Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.
Gloria Steinem
#20. At night I leave the lights on in my little house and walks across the flat fields. When I look back from a distance the house is like a boat on the sea. It's really the only time I feel safe.
Will Graham
#21. The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
Antonio Banderas
#22. The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.
Jose Iturbi
#23. That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
Angus Young
#24. The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.
Regis Philbin
#25. My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me.
Jaden Smith
#26. The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.
Paul Simon
#27. The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
Douglas Kennedy
#28. The only time I get headaches is when my alarm clock makes me wake up before noon. Now that's my version of morning sickness.
Joyce Rachelle
#29. Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.
Pema Chodron
#30. I told Luke about that night at a time when he was enamored with me, which is the only time you should ever tell anyone something shameful about yourself - when a person is mad enough about you that disgrace is endearing.
Jessica Knoll
#31. The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I'm in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.
Texas Battle
#32. I love Thanksgiving turkey ... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#33. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#34. Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.
Chad Smith
#35. {Iola Speaking} "The only time I seem to get you to actually say something is over coffee, so let's latte.
Craig Robertson
#36. The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
Wilson Mizner
#37. I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
Laura Hillenbrand
#38. 'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!
Tom Goodman-Hill
#39. People are always asking me if I work out, but to be honest, I'm doing very little at the moment. The only time I really go to the gym is if I'm staying in a hotel.
Ashley Jensen
#40. The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.
Fulton J. Sheen
#41. The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.
Paul Weller
#42. If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#43. So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn't even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.
George Foreman
#44. What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that "time shall be no more" means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
Marianne Williamson
#45. I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
Gavin MacLeod
#46. The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more.
Fredrik Backman
#47. What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#48. Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!
Roger Corman
#49. Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
Jose Saramago
#50. The only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
Clare Boothe Luce
#51. Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life ... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.
T. Harv Eker
#52. The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.
Susan Sarandon
#53. A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.
Bill Cosby
#54. Mickey Maus," William was saying, "is a nut about butter. The only time he ever lost his cool was when we were having a small brunch and we were down to our last three pounds of butter. He panicked.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#55. I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.
Chronixx
#56. I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there.
Jeff Sessions
#57. The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno .
David Bowie
#58. It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
Patrick Whitesell
#59. I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.
Kesha
#60. I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
Lawrence Halprin
#61. Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.
Gordon Ramsay
#62. Gabrielle opened the fridge, which was held shut with a strip of gaff tape, and pulled out sliced white bread, margarine and plastic cheese. It was the only time Lenny had seen ants running out of a fridge.
Caroline Shaw
#63. Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.
Art Buchwald
#65. The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
Wendell Berry
#66. I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.
Gene Perret
#67. And his father's voice replied to him. That is the only time a man can be brave.
George R R Martin
#68. The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.
Deepak Chopra
#69. According to the British Journal of Psychiatry, marijuana can cause panic attacks. I don't know ... The only time I have ever seen a marijuana user look panicky is when they are out of marijuana.
Jay Leno
#70. Hmmm. See, in this world, Xirena, the Simi does what she wants and akri, he say, 'Okay, Simi, whatever you want, Simi.' Unless it involves eating people; then he usually says no, but that's the only time. Other than that, he do what the Simi says. See how that works? (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. The only time you have a free press is when you own one.
H.L. Mencken
#72. The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
Storm Jameson
#73. I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.
Lennie James
#74. I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.
Janeane Garofalo
#75. Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans. The only time a dog has ever betrayed me ... was by dying.
Jose N. Harris
#76. I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
Saku Koivu
#77. For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.
Juno Temple
#78. Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al McGuire
#79. There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.
Jessica Simpson
#80. Spring is the only time you can feel suddenly clean while you're getting muddy dirty.
Toni Sorenson
#81. The only time a bachelor's bed is made is when it's in the factory.
P. J. O'Rourke
#82. Then one night we used the baby's head as a bong. (I'm pretty sure that's the only time that sentence has ever been used in a memoir. One would hope. I'd check it out on the Internet, but to be honest; that whole horse-enema-fetish stuff scared the shit out of me, so I'm not even going to look.)
Jenny Lawson
#83. The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Thomas A. Edison
#84. My son, Rob ... said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."
Dave Barry
#85. The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.
Jack Henry Abbott
#86. The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
Lisa Gardner
#87. I'm not a summertime guy. The only time I really enjoy the summer is touring and performing because there is nothing else for me to do at home. It's too hot, and you can't farm. You can't hunt.
Blake Shelton
#88. Darkness resides in us all; but when it surrounds us, closes in on us, it's the only time when we truly know the power of our light.
Robert Storey
#89. We must welcome the night. It's the only time that the stars shine.
Michel Quoist
#90. Before is the only time you own, the only before you can trust is now, and you don't even know how long before is.
C.J. Cherryh
#91. The only time I ever saw him untidy was after a fight. What a sight that was. James Bond run through a blender. You know the other fella probably got off worse.
Esi Edugyan
#92. The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.
Robert Moss
#93. Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
Susan George
#94. Hierarchy was like breathing: the only time you thought about it was when something went wrong.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#95. I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.
Melissa Auf Der Maur
#96. The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!"
"The only honest things I can say to you are insults.
Brandon Sanderson
#97. When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.
Sofia Coppola
#98. The only time you'll ever have is now.
Brian Tracy
#99. Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive.
Sandra Bullock
#100. I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
Otto Preminger
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