Time Is Like Quotes

#1. Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

Marilyn Manson

#2. All conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#3. I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Stanislaw Lem

#4. Time is like constellations that swing in a great circle in the sky's vast bowl. There is no beginning, no end; all returns again and again, forever.

Linda Lay Shuler

#5. To paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

Brenda Ueland

#6. Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

#7. A world where everyone tells lies all the time is like a world where everyone carries a knife. You think it's going to help you, but it only makes things worse.

Keren David

#8. Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Josh Billings

#10. Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.

Allison DuBois

#11. I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. The second time is like, 'Okay, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.

Eva Mendes

#12. Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.

Lao-Tzu

#13. Time is like an egg and life is like a chicken that lays the egg.

Murray Schisgal

#14. Acting time is like flight time: You can work on a simulator, you can rehearse, but unless you're really in front of the camera or on a stage - that's when you really learn how to work it.

John Kapelos

#15. Time is like a river. As soon as a thing is seen, it is carried away and another takes its place, and then that other is carried away also.

Jack McDevitt

#16. Time is like tomorrow. It is not guaranteed. Spending it feeling bad is not the way to go.

Debra Benowitz

#17. Time is like a barber, it shears you first and then shows you your own face in the mirror. (Marrying Nusrat)

Manjul Bajaj

#18. Time is like a river
you cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed
will never pass again ...

Tanu B Singh

#19. Trying to write, or talk - or think - without invoking time is like trying to make pancakes underwater. Time

John Wray

#20. Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

Domenico Cieri

#21. Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#22. We can't hold onto things. Time is like the river. It carries us off, and faster than we would like, most often.

Tracy Rees

#23. Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Mike Tyson

#24. When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean. Sloppy and vast.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#25. Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

Ogden Nash

#26. Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

George Santayana

#27. In the book A Wrinkle in Time, it says that time is like a big old rumpled blanket. What I'd like is to be caught in one of those wrinkles. Tucked away. Hidden in a small tight fold.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#28. Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

Chuck Klosterman

#29. Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!

Jennie Breeden

#30. Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

John Dean

#31. Time is like the ocean; you can only hold a little in your hands.

Josh Pyke

#32. Time is like the fan, if you keep enjoying its comfortable air without using it distinctively, you shall surely feel its true and real hotness when it stops its cool and refreshing air

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. Time is like a river," Coydog had told the boy. "It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin'. You couldn't stop it no more than you could fly away.

Walter Mosley

#34. To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.

V.S. Naipaul

#35. Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#36. There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Janet Frame

#37. Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.

Robin Williams

#38. Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

Glen Hansard

#39. Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places.

Lesley Choyce

#40. Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

Henry David Thoreau

#41. Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,
Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

#42. To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.

Christopher Isherwood

#43. Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

Owen Feltham

#44. The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

Margaret Deland

#45. To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.

Gregory Benford

#46. I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

Rokia Traore

#47. I don't want to end my career and then start something, I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing. There's plenty of time after my tennis to definitely go full-time fashion, when I have arthritis and all that fun stuff.

Serena Williams

#48. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.

Abigail Strom

#49. Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

Jon Lajoie

#50. Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Elizabeth Pena

#51. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.

Gever Tulley

#52. I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#53. The handwriting in the letter is the neatest I've ever seen. It looks like an old-fashioned love letter or something, every loop perfectly formed. I guess you have a lot of time to practice penmanship in prison.

Roan Parrish

#54. I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

John Curran

#55. Hindu sages say that you should concentrate while eating. But, we don't have time anymore. Fast food is not quick enough for me. I would like super-fast food in the form of pills.

Thierry Mugler

#56. The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

C.S. Lewis

#57. Sometimes it is one step at a time, and things don't always work out the way we would like them to, but as you allow God to direct you He will bring you to a place of peace.

Anna Stevens

#58. I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#59. The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

Ray Bradbury

#60. Sometimes all we need is a hug that will make us feel home. The heartbeats that sound like a lullaby and the eyes which assure us that the world is not such a bad a place yet every time we stare into them.

Akshay Vasu

#61. I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#62. Why are people so afraid of thinking? Why don't they ever leave time to reflect? There's nothing wrong with tranquility; nor emptiness, vertigo, or even unhappiness. I think that these things are the first steps to precede the birth of a new thought. This is why I like to read.

Almudena Solana

#63. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.

Rene Russo

#64. You and I move through time like a flame on a string. The ashes behind are the past, consumed, unreachable. The string ahead is the future. But the only moment we inhabit, the only moment where we can act, is the present, the point where the flame burns, the point where time touches eternity.

Brandon Mull

#65. I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

Haruki Murakami

#66. Selling without targeting is like sailing without a compass. Think before you invest more time in pursuing the lead.

Timi Nadela

#67. I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

David Levithan

#68. I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

Lalla Ward

#69. Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time
you don't get a second chance!

Sergei Bongart

#70. When you have known someone your whole life you don't need a lot of warm-up time to get into a big argument. All the fore-play has been done years ago, and so the battle sits in your memory like stove gas awaiting the match. A wrong word, a careless allusion, and the old fire is suddenly raging.

Roland Merullo

#71. With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

Sarah Polley

#72. Street people use cardboard all the time, and bum alleys are just shanties or lean-tos, though. They're nothing like my house! Mine is deluxe! It's a big, thick, super sturdy refrigerator box that I found at an appliance store!

Wendelin Van Draanen

#73. I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

Chris Tucker

#74. Seeing someone you once loved is like falling in love for the first time all over again.

Leah Raeder

#75. We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.

Ellen DeGeneres

#76. I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude ... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.

Utkarsh Ambudkar

#77. I found you a thousand times; I guess you done the same; But then we lose each other; It's like a children's game; As I find you here again; A thought runs through my mind; Our love is like a circle; Let's go 'round one more time.

Harry Chapin

#78. What if there is this time bomb to love. What if it's like you fall in love with so many people who just aren't for you, and with each one, your heart toughens up, and you have to find the one who is right for you before your heart is completely calcified in your chest.

Gregory Sherl

#79. The good thing about being undiscovered is that every time you begin a new writing project it feels like this work will be the best one you have done, this one will be better than the last, a higher standard of writing, and that's the way it should be.

Robert Black

#80. Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Mike Myers

#81. Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#82. Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.

Rumi

#83. Our lack of focus is our primary problem and the source of many of our difficulties, like procrastination, trouble setting priorities, trouble dealing with time, trouble finishing projects, perfectionism, and the inevitable demoralization.

Douglas A. Puryear

#84. There is nothing like the time we have with those we love the most. Every moment is precious because we aren't promised tomorrow. Hold on to them tight and cherish them while you're given the chance.

N.E. Henderson

#85. I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

Katie Price

#86. 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.

Odette Annable

#87. Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

Umberto Eco

#88. In the only love story he ever attempted, "Kiss Me Again," he had written, "There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time." The moral at the end of that story is this: "Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Kurt Vonnegut

#89. If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

Martin Buber

#90. It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films?

Douglas Booth

#91. I like to say 'Reign' is the '24' of the pre-Renaissance. I think we're going to take a lot of liberties with history, as well as extend it over a longer period of time.

Megan Follows

#92. I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

Nancy Gibbs

#93. All I am saying, is there is evidence, biological and genetic, that the existence of mermaids is possible, if not probable. Over time, evolution can be revolutionary, I like to say." -Professor Nathaniel Hand

Robert Woolcott

#94. Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the negative to deal with. I get that as well. Most of the time, I'm very honored to have a fan base that they react to my songs. My songs speak to a lot of them.

Hank Williams III

#95. We will face some problems we cannot solve, some situations we cannot change. That's when we may feel like panicking, but it is the time to stand still and wait for the Lord's deliverance.

Mark Batterson

#96. Don't be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve. For myself, for a long time - maybe I felt inauthentic or something. I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing. I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say... say it from the rooftops! That's what I would say.

Tom Hiddleston

#97. People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM'ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that's the whole market I'm going after.

Spencer Pratt

#98. Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

Joe Perry

#99. A relationship is like a road trip: You get bugs splattered on the windshield. By the time you see them, it's too late, but you still keep going.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#100. The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it's like to live in this moment, right now.

Lynn Thomson