I’m impatient, and I guard my time really well, and that’s probably why I’m able to do multiple things and achieve some of my goals with those things.
Time Quotes
There’s a lot of time that I don’t write. When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around. I’m one of the world’s greatest pencil sharpeners.
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. (“Barnaby Rudge”)
I consider time as an immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
But at my back I always hear Time’s wing d chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie deserts of vast eternity.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
If you spend all of your time arguing with people who are nuts, you’ll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
