Time Quotes

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

~ Alden Ehrenreich

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

~ Ron Perlman

I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.

~ Jane Goldman

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

~ Bodhidharma

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

~ John Banville

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

~ Vince Vaughn

No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.

~ Bennet Omalu

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

~ Robert Rauschenberg

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

~ Hans Hofmann

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

~ Hans Hofmann

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

~ Lester Bangs

One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.

~ Steve Kanaly

Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.

~ Barrett Foa

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

~ Carl Andre

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

~ John Berger

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

~ Jean Cocteau

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

~ Henri Matisse

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

~ Keith Haring

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

~ Edgard Varèse

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

~ William J. Clinton

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

~ Charles Bukowski

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

~ Harry S Truman

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

~ Audrey Hepburn

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

~ Rob Mckenna

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

~ Nelson Mandela

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

~ E. B. White

A week is a long time in politics.

~ Harold Wilson

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.

~ Johanna Siguroardottir

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'

~ Jay-Z

Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

~ Condoleezza Rice

Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.

~ Justin Trudeau

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

~ Mark Helprin

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

~ Brad Henry

People don't get involved with local charities or politics because they think it's hard to make a difference and the problem feels overwhelming. But I believe that if all I've time for this year is to write one letter to the local council, it's still worth doing.

~ Monica Ali

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

~ Frank Lautenberg

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

~ George Stephanopoulos

I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.

~ Justina Machado

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

~ Lisa See