Time Quotes

Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.

~ Susan Wojcicki

You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you think they're going to have a dog temperament in that they're going to run to the door when you get home, lick you on the face and cuddle with you all the time, but cats are not that way.

~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

~ Kate Winslet

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

~ Taraji P. Henson

I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couch and for it to feel like really easy living. I really love to have my friends over, cook dinner for them, catch up, and spend quality time with quality people in my life.

~ Stacy Keibler

I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

~ Len Goodman

We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.

~ Sterling Marlin

When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'

~ Janine Shepherd

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

~ Johnny Cash

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

~ Gertrude Ederle

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

~ Celia Hammond

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

~ Susan L. Taylor

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

~ Kevin Conroy

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

~ Thor Heyerdahl

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

~ Joe Rogan

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

~ Clifford Odets

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

~ Jim Carrey

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

~ Paul Mccartney

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

~ John Irving

I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

~ Rami Malek

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

~ Meg Cabot

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

~ Henri Nouwen

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.

~ Amit Bhatia

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

~ Pete Rose

I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.

~ Dan Gilroy

Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

~ Douglas Southall Freeman

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

~ Jacob Whitesides

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

~ Voltaire

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

~ Christy Turlington

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

~ Rudolf Steiner

My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I'd holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best.

~ Marie Helvin

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

~ Jeff Buckley

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

~ Patty Duke

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

~ Charles Lindbergh

Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

~ Neil Strauss

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

~ William Morris Hunt