My Time Quotes - Page 29

• I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Thinking, Upset, Commodity

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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• The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Giving, Way, Waste

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• In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

  Ken Salazar

  Effort, Independence, President

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• It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

  R. L. Stine

  Jobs, Writing, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

  Zoe Saldana

  Responsibility, Lazy, Stories

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• I want to be a designer for my time.

  Gianni Versace

  Want, Designer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself.

  Amy Weber

  Girlfriend, Hair, Sweat

  "Amy Weber bikini babe". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Pressure, Used, Young

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Jobs, Taken, People

  "A Minute With: Evan Rachel Wood on 'Ides of March'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Perfect

  "Who's responsible for the fall of Ramadi: Iraq or the US?". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

  Tony Levin

  Kings, Musical, Trying

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• Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that I can work with great directors. My last commercial was directed by Erick Zonca, who made 'Dream Life of Angels.' And finally, it doesn't take up a lot of my time.

  Virginie Ledoyen

  Dream, Angel, Mean

  "DiCaprio? I wouldn't wish his life on anybody". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.

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• I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

  Isaac Marion

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

  Randall Munroe

  Jobs, Old Job, Virginia

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• My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

  Eva Zeisel

  Party, Artist, People

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• There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

  Masai Ujiri

  Basketball, Player, Doubt

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• I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

  Louise Erdrich

  Revenge, Dwelling, Trying

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• What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

  Grover Cleveland

  Thinking, Games, People

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• I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

  Terri Windling

  Home, Years, Six Months

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• My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Real, Long

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• In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.

  Jess Weixler

  Fall, Surfing, Phases

  "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

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• I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.

  Maynard Webb

  Dedication, Impact, Entrepreneur

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

  Stijn Streuvels

  Father, Punishment, Water

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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• The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

  Desmond Tutu

  Insecurity, Different, Needs

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.77, Random House

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• I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

  Twyla Tharp

  Greatness, Missions, Choreographers

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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