Top 100 Time Since Quotes
#1. In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.
Jake Kasdan
#2. I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.
Claude Williams
#3. I can't believe how much this place has grown," Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. "Been a long time since you visited, miss?"
"About seventy years," Hazel said.
The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence.
Rick Riordan
#4. It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.
Rafael Soriano
#5. Americans are clearly more afraid than at any time since 9/11. In Los Angeles, 650 schoolchildren didn't go to - 650,000 schoolchildren didn't go to school because of an e-mail threat, this two weeks after an attack killed 14 people in San Bernardino.
Wolf Blitzer
#6. It must be pretty cool being a lawyer," she said in awe.
"Cool" was not an adjective Jake would use. He was forced to admit to himself that it had been a long time since he viewed his profession as something other than tedious.
John Grisham
#7. Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
Steve Forbes
#8. It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.
Ross Macdonald
#9. his look was both self-congratulatory and full of cynical cruelty. I came home, conscious of a feeling of disgust so much more powerful than usual that I sat down and made myself read the novel for the first time since it was published.
Doris Lessing
#10. On Phantom ... I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away. I really ... I was so excited about it. It's been a long time since I really got so excited about something.
Gerard Butler
#11. I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
Randy Travis
#12. Dazzling truth that you never will have "more time," since you already have all the time there is - you
Arnold Bennett
#13. I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.
Jean M. Auel
#14. And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.
John Motson
#15. I'll see you tomorrow,' I finally said.
'Tomorrow,' you echoed. We hung up without either of us saying 'I love you' for the first time since we'd first said it. At that moment the word TOMORROW meant the same thing. Nothing else needed to be said.
Trevor Shane
#16. When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.
Michael Stipe
#17. This is the first time since I've been coaching that I gave them off on Christmas Day. Sometimes when you lose a game you want to get right back at it. But in reality I thank God we had an opportunity for our guys to be home with their families on Christmas.
Louis Orr
#18. Your father and I haven't had this much quality time since our honeymoon."
"So what?"
"So, what if we can't stand each other?
Lisa Lutz
#19. Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's.
John Hutton
#20. The Republicans won the women's vote in 2010. It was the first time since Ronald Reagan that the Republicans had won the women's vote. And when you look at the issues that really drove women to the Republican Party, it's been the issues related to the economy, to jobs, the debt.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
#21. So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government.
Gideon Rachman
#22. It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.
Antonio Porchia
#23. There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
Estelle Morris
#24. Stasis, Iseult det Midenzi told herself for the thousandth time since dawn. Stasis in your fingers and in your toes.
Susan Dennard
#25. Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
John Lothrop Motley
#26. We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.
Romano Prodi
#27. Then we leave together,' he whispered. Just that, nothing else.
And for the first time since they met, Scythe cried.
Drew Karpyshyn
#28. It's been a long time since I felt something like hope. Don't ask me to give it up for Netflix and a Prius.
Tiffany Reisz
#29. Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
Bryant Gumbel
#30. The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since last I wept.
George R R Martin
#31. I catch myself smiling, and realize that, for the first time since her death, her memory makes me happy, not sad. And that's just the way she'd want it, the woman who loved to laugh.
Lori Nelson Spielman
#33. Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?
Nancy Sinatra
#34. have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman, dressed
Various
#36. It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.
Christina Baker Kline
#37. He smiled, chained up in his room, yet for the first time since they had arrived in this awful house, feeling so free.
This would be a fun seven days.
The Behrg
#38. I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.
Daryl Hall
#39. It was again raining when we started the next morning; indeed, it seemed a long time since I had felt really dry, but the grey day harmonized perfectly with the soft English beauty of the country
Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
#40. For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I'd slapped her. Water pooled at the bottom edges of her eyes, her cheeks flushed red and she blinked rapidly. She'd succeeded in making me feel like a d*ck ... again.
Katie McGarry
#41. We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time.
Venus Williams
#42. I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
Joseph Heller
#43. I had never worked in television before 'Freaks and Geeks,' and 'New Girl' is the first time since that I've worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.
Jake Kasdan
#44. The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.
Wynton Marsalis
#45. sees the Sights, under Perplexing Difficulties. The native borned Gothamite mite have notissed, a short time since, a venerable lookin' ex-Statesman,
Various
#46. I want to wake up every morning and listen to your heart. I want to be the last man you slept with. When you say it's been a long time since you made love, I want that time to be a matter of hours. Because I loved you last night. And I'm going to love you again tonight.
Suanne Laqueur
#47. I like the idea of making some friends, of going to the same school for more than a few months, of maybe actually having a life. I started to do it in Florida. It was sort of great, and for the first time since we've been on Earth, I almost feel normal. I want to find somewhere and stay somewhere.
Pittacus Lore
#48. Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
John Mellencamp
#49. behind. I gained confidence when others left. He quit? I would ask myself. At that? In the time since I finished SEAL training, I have taken
Chad Williams
#50. It appears she has taken an exorbitant quantity of heroin.' 'Oh dear.' I pushed my plate aside. 'What condition did she have to take it for?' 'Boredom.' He stood up. 'She has so little to do with her time since she came out of prison.' I
M.R.C. Kasasian
#51. It is a long time since I saw you lose a life, Bluestar." Firepaw overheard Tigerclaw's whispered words. "How many have you lost now?" Firepaw couldn't help feeling surprised at Tigerclaw's open curiosity.
Erin Hunter
#52. It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#53. I feel trapped in this car with you and for the first time since we've gotten together, I want to be somewhere you're not.
Heather Demetrios
#54. It's an island, boss. They'll always find us. Teddy met Chuck's eyes and nodded. For the first time since they'd met, he could see fear in Chuck's eyes, his jaw trying to tighten against it.
Dennis Lehane
#55. It's been a long time since I let a man boss me around. I kind of miss it.
Tiffany Reisz
#56. To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.
Frank B. Kellogg
#57. The rain feels so good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay awhile longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since I last wept.
George R R Martin
#58. The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.
Frank Gehry
#59. For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature
David Suzuki
#60. It's been a long time since I dared to get close to anyone, and I didn't realize letting down my guard could ache like this. I'm facedown in the ocean, and she's the lifeboat.
Sarina Bowen
#61. That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.
Georg Buchner
#62. You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving.
- Macey
Ally Carter
#63. I don't diet per se, I don't weigh myself, I don't look at a number - I haven't done that in probably twenty-five years. I just try to do one of the green drinks nearly every single day, and it's been a long time since I've been sick or anything, so I think it really works.
Jillian Barberie
#64. It's been a long time since I've won a race in anything,
Matt Kenseth
#65. Yes, I cried at the end of it. I did then, and I have every time since. Even a reading of the story aloud will bring tears to my eyes. In my opinion, anyone who isn't moved by it is less than human inside.
Patrick Rothfuss
#66. A long term relationship is priceless! Divorce isn't. This book should help you get it right the first time. Since it just came out however, it will help you get it right the next time also.
Susan Ziggy
#67. My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.
Diane Setterfield
#68. Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.
Mark Shields
#69. Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.
Sara Sheridan
#70. He smiled, a real smile, the kind real boys gave real girls. "It's been a very long time since anyone worried for me.
Holly Black
#71. Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.
James Johnson
#72. I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.
Mary Roach
#73. If two closely related species act the same under similar circumstances, the mental processes behind their behavior are likely the same, too. The alternative would be to postulate that, in the short time since they diverged, both species evolved different ways of generating the same behavior.
Frans De Waal
#75. What ho, Stinker.' 'Hallo, Bertie.' 'Long time since we met.' 'It is a bit, isn't it?' 'I hear you're a curate now.' 'Yes, that's right.' 'How are the souls?
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. It'd been a long time since she'd met a guy who could bring her down to earth - or follow her into the stars.
Cole McCade
#77. [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.
William H Gass
#78. It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.
Richard Paul Evans
#79. Wainwright's Fruit Emporium. Mr Wainwright is not able to take calls at this time since he is not right in the head and thinks he is a cucumber. Thank you for calling.
Douglas Adams
#80. (Zarek attacks Valerius.)
Cease! I know it's been a long time since you were around another Dark-Hunter, Z, but remember, whatever you do to him, you will feel it tenfold. (Acheron)
Pain I can take, it's him I can't. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. Often eating took considerable extra time, since he could hardly see his food, groping with a fork or spoon, enforcedly omnivorous. "Blind men wear spotted pants," Dorothy teased, telling him to wash his...
Edward Hoagland
#82. We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.
Sarah Palin
#83. For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine.
Ian Fleming
#84. Many a time since have I noticed, in persons of Ginevra Fanshawe's light, careless temperament, and fair, fragile style of beauty, an entire incapacity to endure: they seem to sour in adversity, like small beer in thunder.
Charlotte Bronte
#85. Come on," she said, smiling for the first time since she'd stepped on the plane. "We need to get to the bus before Ian plugs his iPod into the speakers."
Dan shuddered. "I'd rather face a thousand Vespers than listen to Beethoven.
Clifford Riley
#86. For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women could be enticed to burden themselves with the solitary and thankless procreation, nourishing, and guidance of the human race.
Jean Sasson
#87. Mercy', Finnikin said, grinning from ear to ear. 'We're going to have a bed full of children and I'll have to holler out to my wife, Hello there! It's been a long time since we last spoke!
Melina Marchetta
#88. In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.
Bernie Sanders
#89. I'm just really happy to be happy for the first time since I was about 20.
Gold Panda
#90. It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun
#91. We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
Charles Stanley
#92. In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.
Helen Hooven Santmyer
#93. Everybody stood dead still. It was as if now that we were about to get out of the Tower for the first time since the flood, we were scared, like we were crossing some line that we wouldn't be able to uncross.
Greenleigh
B.E. Scully
#94. A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.
Philip Gourevitch
#95. It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.
Emil Cioran
#96. These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.
Anais Nin
#97. I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
Randy Bachman
#98. It's been a long time since we've been out there playing new material, and we have really enjoyed that. Of course we still enjoy playing the Yes standards as well, but it's great to have a bit of a challenge and pull off new material.
Chris Squire
#99. I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
Helen Keller
#100. A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.
Frederick Lenz
