Top 100 Time At Quotes
#1. Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age!
Gilles Gratton
#3. You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all.
Brande Roderick
#4. We also know that the brain can handle only a limited amount of information at a time; at its simplest, we can think of stress as information overload, so when there's too much happening, the brain starts to triage, prioritizing, simplifying, and even plain old ignoring some things.
Emily Nagoski
#5. How much of your time, at your "hourly rate," is wasted each year because you're cleaning up after your employees and fixing issues they've created or haven't resolved themselves?
Liz Weber
#6. Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
Joan Crawford
#7. He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
Helen Simonson
#8. The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.
Celia Imrie
#9. I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.
Marion Davies
#10. I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover. Let them wonder.
Maria V. Snyder
#11. Quest are epic. Quest take forever. We don't have forever. I don't know that we have much time at all.
Andrea Cremer
#12. My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, 'OK.' They like it very much now.
Caterina Murino
#13. While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#14. Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
Natalie Goldberg
#15. How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
Stephen Covey
#16. It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.
Cassandra Clare
#17. Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.
Ray Bradbury
#18. I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone - a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.
J.D. Salinger
#19. Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.
Gene Siskel
#20. I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.
Andriy Shevchenko
#21. I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.
Summer Glau
#22. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.
Elizabeth Berg
#23. It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.
Mary Kay Blakely
#25. The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.
Marion Bartoli
#26. I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.
Lisa Yuskavage
#27. I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things.
Joy Covey
#28. The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
J. Paul Getty
#29. I eat all of the time ... at least five little meals a day.
Marilu Henner
#30. You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.
Hiroyuki Takei
#31. From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.
Jan Chipchase
#32. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he's done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest ... ... and he can't believe in himself because the world's whipped him so!
Lorraine Hansberry
#33. Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.
Billy Corgan
#35. Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
John Grisham
#36. Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy.
Thomm Quackenbush
#37. We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
John Barton
#38. I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.
Darren Criss
#39. 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
#40. My father was a proudly antisocial man who spent most of his time at a typewriter, reflecting negatively on his neighbors and society, throwing in things like "Goddamn it, you've got to be kind." The emphasis was on the Goddamn it. He was proud of the fact that I had no friends
Mark Vonnegut
#41. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.
K'naan
#42. The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.
Rick Moranis
#43. One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.
Charles Clarke
#44. I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us.
Lindsay Davenport
#45. On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Ahmed Zewail
#46. Some men run out of stories, of conversation, in no time at all. Either so little has happened to them or, more likely, they are incapable of understanding or retaining what has happened to them, and so they soon find themselves with nothing to say. Such a man makes a terrible companion.
John Marsden
#47. Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in unnecessary gossip and try to talk about spiritual subjects with others.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#48. Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.
David Goggins
#49. Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#50. God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. ("Mad House")
Richard Matheson
#51. The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.
Djimon Hounsou
#52. I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.
Ashley Scott
#53. Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth being ever seen by two persons alike ... What Pierre chiefly desired was always to transmit his thought to another exactly as he conceived it himself.
Leo Tolstoy
#54. I think there's nothing wrong with eating all the time. At least i'm not doing anything illegal.
Niall Horan
#55. I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.
John Deacon
#56. I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.
Norah O'Donnell
#57. Identify yourselves. You on the left, who are you?"
"My name is Gagaril," the man said.
"I'm sorry," Lightsong said.
The man flushed. "I was named after my father, Your Grace."
"After he what? Spent an unusual amount of time at the local tavern?
Brandon Sanderson
#58. I guess if I had fifty million dollars I could spend more time at home ...
Tom Hardy
#59. I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.
Dave Sitek
#60. Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#61. Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.
Grover Norquist
#62. Then I rise disembodied from the dark to grasp and attach myself like a homeless parasite to the shape of my identity and its position in space and time. At first, I cannot find my way, I cannot find myself where I left myself, someone has removed all trace of me.
Janet Frame
#63. Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.
Lionel Shriver
#64. It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.
Rie Rasmussen
#65. Thanks a lot, Allie."
I grimaced not for the first time at the realization that he couldn't remember my name, then I decided I was definitely over the guy. "You're welcome, Bart."
"Brad."
"Kate."
"Huh?"
I wanted to laugh. "I'm Kate.
Rachel Hawthorne
#66. I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.
Kit Reed
#67. Mob of beings and things!
A true sadness, because you are really deep
in the soul, as they say, not in time at all!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#68. I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.
Steve Yzerman
#69. My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.
Danielle De Niese
#70. I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
B. Wayne Hughes
#71. It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
Paul Nurse
#72. My dad said it best when he said, "John, on your deathbed you will never wish you spent more time at the office." So I started spending a little more time at home. I settled into a pretty good, if ordinary, existence.
Robin S. Sharma
#73. I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
Laura Mvula
#74. It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
#75. Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.
Ovid
#76. There may come a time at last that I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
East of the moon west of the sun.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#77. I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.
Sheryl Sandberg
#78. Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.
Eugene Kennedy
#79. There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room
Adele Parks
#80. Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.
Ben Peek
#81. Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.
Troy Glaus
#82. I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.
James McGreevey
#83. I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.
Mike Ditka
#84. But nothing. Accept what's done, Louis, and follow your heart. We did what was right this time . . . at least, I hope to Christ it was right. Another time it could be wrong - wrong as hell.
Stephen King
#85. At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it ...
Charles A. Beard
#86. I'd like to get shot into space. I'd like to potentially visit the moon. I don't know if I can do that in the next couple years, but I spent some time at the jet propulsion lab, looking out at the future of when a guy like me can do a little space travel.
Rob Dyrdek
#87. Guilt
if there was any guilt
spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything ... Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.
Philip K. Dick
#88. On their deathbed, nobody ever wishes they'd spent more time at the office.
Graeme Simsion
#89. The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
Dinaw Mengestu
#90. I have so much joy in my life. I love my husband and kids so much. So much love. I'm also more focused now on spending more time at home and in town instead of going on tour. Because of that nesting, I find that I'm even more into writing and creating.
Lisa Loeb
#91. My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
Steve Nash
#92. The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments
Kenneth E. Boulding
#93. That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?
Peter Shaffer
#94. A good multitasker always sets aside time at the end of the day to review what has happened today, and based on what must happen tomorrow, creates a plan of attack for the next day.
Martin Yate
#95. An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.
Malcolm Forbes
#96. If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#97. I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.
Matthew Rhys
#98. It's great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that's not what you're there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people.
Beth Ramsay
#99. The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to consider this month, this year, and a lifetime of years.
Ray Bradbury
#100. I enjoyed my time at DC. Dan Didio, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee were great to me, and I'm very grateful for the opportunities they gave me. Having said that, I think it's important to try new things and work with new people to keep myself fresh.
Jeff Lemire
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